Title :
An Interpretation of Identification Entropy
Author :
Ahlswede, Rudolf ; Cai, Ning
Author_Institution :
Fak. fur Math., Bielefeld Univ.
Abstract :
After Ahlswede introduced identification for source coding he discovered identification entropy and demonstrated that it plays a role analogously to classical entropy in Shannon´s noiseless source coding. We give now even more insight into this functional interpreting its two factors
Keywords :
entropy codes; source coding; Shannon noiseless source coding; functional interpretation; identification entropy; Entropy; Random variables; Source coding; Terminology; Identification entropy; operational justification; source coding for identification;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.2006.879972
