• DocumentCode
    1384763
  • Title

    New bounds on the redundancy of Huffman codes

  • Author

    Capocelli, Renato M. ; De Santis, Alfredo

  • Author_Institution
    Dipartimento di Matematica, Roma Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    37
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    7/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1095
  • Lastpage
    1104
  • Abstract
    Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the redundancy of binary Huffman codes for a memoryless source whose least likely source letter probability is known. Tight upper bounds on redundancy in terms of the most and least likely source letter probabilities are provided
  • Keywords
    codes; redundancy; Huffman codes; binary codes; lower bounds; memoryless source; redundancy; upper bounds; Councils; Entropy; Senior members; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.87001
  • Filename
    87001