Title :
Smooth Renyi entropy and applications
Author :
Renner, Renato ; Wolf, Stefan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
fDate :
27 June-2 July 2004
Abstract :
We introduce a new entropy measure, called smooth Renyi entropy. The measure characterizes fundamental properties of a random variable Z, such as the amount of uniform randomness that can be extracted from Z or the minimum length of an encoding of Z.
Keywords :
entropy codes; encoding length; entropy measure; random variable property; smooth Renyi entropy application; Additives; Application software; Computer science; Entropy; Length measurement; Probability distribution; Random variables; Zinc;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2004. ISIT 2004. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8280-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2004.1365269
