• DocumentCode
    3068163
  • Title

    Source codes as random number generators

  • Author

    Visweswariah, Karthik ; Kulkarni, Sanjeev ; Verdu, Sergio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    29 Jun-4 Jul 1997
  • Firstpage
    416
  • Abstract
    The use of optimal variable-length source codes as optimal random bit generators is investigated. We show in what sense source codes can be considered to be random bit generators
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; optimisation; random number generation; source coding; variable length codes; Huffman source code; Lempel-Ziv algorithm; Lempel-Ziv codes; Shannon source code; optimal random bit generators; optimal variable-length source codes; random number generators; stationary ergodic sources; Entropy; Machinery; Probability; Random number generation; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory. 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Ulm
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3956-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.1997.613353
  • Filename
    613353