Title :
On the optimum ratio of word lengths in communication
Author :
Horibe, Yasuicei
fDate :
11/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An elementary account concerning the optimum ratio between the source word (block) length and the block length of the corresponding channel codeword is given. By "optimum" it is meant that by choosing a suitable ratio of word lengths we can attain the theoretically optimum balance between the average distortion of the source information and the average "cost" (in a general sense) of using the channel.
Keywords :
Coding; Rate-distortion theory; Source coding; Channel capacity; Communication systems; Costs; Decoding; Information science; Information theory; Power engineering and energy; Rate-distortion;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.1974.1055303
