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Tight Bounds on the Redundancy of Huffman Codes

Mohajer, Soheil
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Pakzad, Payam
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Kakhbod, Ali
2012
Ieee Transactions On Information Theory

In this paper, we study the redundancy of Huffman codes. In particular, we consider sources for which the probability of one of the source symbols is known. We prove a conjecture of Ye and Yeung regarding the upper bound on the redundancy of such Huffman codes, which yields in a tight upper bound. We also derive a tight lower bound for the redundancy under the same assumption. We further apply the method introduced in this paper to other related problems. It is shown that several other previously known bounds with different constraints follow immediately from our results.

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DOI
10.1109/Tit.2012.2208580
Web of Science ID

WOS:000310156500004

Author(s)
Mohajer, Soheil
Pakzad, Payam
Kakhbod, Ali
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Information Theory
Volume

58

Issue

11

Start page

6737

End page

6746

Subjects

Huffman Code

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redundancy

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tight bounds

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REVIEWED

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February 27, 2013
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