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Anti-uniform Huffman codes

Mohajer, S.
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Kakhbod, A.
2011
Iet Communications

In this study, the authors consider the class of anti-uniform Huffman (AUH) codes. The authors derived tight lower and upper bounds on the average codeword length, entropy and redundancy of finite and infinite AUH codes in terms of the alphabet size of the source. These bounds are tighter than similar bounds. Also a tight upper bound on the entropy of AUH codes is presented in terms of the average cost of the code. The Fibonacci distribution is introduced, which plays a fundamental role in AUH codes. It is shown that such distributions maximise the average length and the entropy of the code for a given alphabet size. The authors also show that the minimum average cost of a code is achieved by an AUH codes in a highly unbalanced cost regime.

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research article
DOI
10.1049/iet-com.2010.0049
Web of Science ID

WOS:000292132400006

Author(s)
Mohajer, S.
Kakhbod, A.
Date Issued

2011

Published in
Iet Communications
Volume

5

Start page

1213

End page

1219

Subjects

Integer Alphabets

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Available on Infoscience
December 16, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/73926
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