Abstract

The performance of optimal prefix-free encoding for memoryless sources with a large alphabet size is studied. It is shown that the redundancy of the Huffman code for almost all sources with a large alphabet size n is very close to that of the average distribution of the monotone sources with n symbols. This value lies between 0.02873 and 0.02877 bit for sufficiently large n.

Full Text
Published version (Free)

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call