Universal Source Coding of Finite Alphabet Sources

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / September 28-30, 1976 / Hyatt House Hotel, Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe application of Shannon's rate distortion theory to real data compression practice has been limited by a lack of effective distortion measures for most real users and incomplete statistical knowledge of real sources. Universal source coding techniques attempt to overcome the latter limitation by developing codes that are effective (in the sense of approaching the theoretical rate distortion limit) for a large class of sources. Here we examine one such technique for sources with finite alphabets where source sequences are divided into composition classes and a universal code is formed from codes designed for each composition class.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection