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 Title: Bounds on the Redundancy of Noiseless Source Coding Author(s): Blumer, Anselm Cyril Department / Program: Mathematics Discipline: Mathematics Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Degree: Ph.D. Genre: Dissertation Subject(s): Mathematics Abstract: The Renyi redundancy, R(,s)(p,w), is the difference between the exponentially weighted average codeword length,(DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI)is the best possible.and the Renyi entropy,(DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI)(Here s > 0 is a parameter, p = (p(,1),p(,2),...,p(,m)), and w = (w(,1),w(,2),...,w(,m)), where p(,i) is the probability that the i('th) codeword, consisting of w(,i) bits, is used.) As s (--->) 0('+) this approaches the usual redundancy. Huffman's algorithm generalizes in a natural way to the s > 0 case. Let R(,s)(p) be the Renyi redundancy of the Huffman code for p and s. The main result of Chapter II is a technique for computing bounds L(,s)(p) and U(,s)(p), satisfying0 (LESSTHEQ) L(,s)(p) (LESSTHEQ) R(,s)(p) (LESSTHEQ) U(,s)(p) < 1.In the case of block to variable-length (BV) coding of a binary memoryless source, these bounds are shown to be asymptotically equal as the block length increases, generalizing a result mentioned by Krichevskii (1966).Chapter III treats the problem of minimizing the oridinary (s = 0) redundancy when p is not entirely known. Let p be a probability vector containing the probabilities of blocks of length n from some J-state unifilar (Markov) source with aphabet size A. Let P denote the class of such probability vectors, and let W denote the class of uniquely decodable codes with A('n) codewords. The minimax redundancy is(DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI)The main result of Chapter III is a technique for generating a sequence of BV codes for which the minimax redundancy is bounded above by Issue Date: 1982 Type: Text Description: 59 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/71205 Other Identifier(s): (UMI)AAI8302809 Date Available in IDEALS: 2014-12-16 Date Deposited: 1982
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