The Transmission Distortion of a Source as a Function of the Encoding Block Length*

8 July 1968

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Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Bell System Technical Journal

Vol. 47 (6) , 827-885
https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1968.tb00065.x

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the transmission of a discrete, independent letter information source over a discrete channel. A distortion function is defined between source output letters and decoder output letters and is used to measure the performan...

Keywords

ALGEBRAICALLY
TRANSMISSION DISTORTION
CHANNEL CAPACITY
BLOCK LENGTH
CONVERGE
DECODER
NOISELESS

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