• DocumentCode
    774416
  • Title

    Almost all complete binary prefix codes have a self-synchronizing string

  • Author

    Freiling, Christopher F. ; Jungreis, Douglas S. ; Théberge, François ; Zeger, Kenneth

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math., California State Univ., San Bernardino, CA, USA
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    2219
  • Lastpage
    2225
  • Abstract
    The probability that a complete binary prefix code has a self-synchronizing string approaches one, as the number of codewords tends to infinity.
  • Keywords
    binary codes; probability; synchronisation; variable length codes; codewords; complete binary prefix codes; decoding; probability; self-synchronizing string; variable-length binary codes; Binary codes; Decoding; Delay; Error correction codes; H infinity control; Information theory; Probability; Random variables; Source coding; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2003.815803
  • Filename
    1226607