• DocumentCode
    920891
  • Title

    A generalization of Huffman coding for messages with frequencies given by upper and lower bounds (Corresp.)

  • Author

    Smith, Stephen A.

  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1974
  • fDate
    1/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    124
  • Lastpage
    125
  • Abstract
    A generalization of the Huffman coding procedure is given for cases in which the source letter probabilities are known only to fall in certain ranges.
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; Bismuth; Convergence; Data compression; Frequency; Huffman coding; Probability distribution; Random variables; Rate distortion theory; Rate-distortion; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1974.1055147
  • Filename
    1055147