DocumentCode
921801
Title
Trellis Encoding of memoryless discrete-time sources with a fidelity criterion
Author
Viterbi, Andrew J. ; Omura, Jim K.
Volume
20
Issue
3
fYear
1974
fDate
5/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
325
Lastpage
332
Abstract
For memoryless discrete-time sources and bounded single-letter distortion measures, we derive a bound on the average per-letter distortion achievable by a trellis source code of fixed constraint length. For any fixed code rate greater than
, the rate-distortion function at
, this bound decreases toward
exponentially with constraint length.
, the rate-distortion function at
, this bound decreases toward
exponentially with constraint length.Keywords
Rate-distortion theory; Trellis codes; Block codes; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Distortion measurement; Encoding; Length measurement; Nonlinear distortion; Rate-distortion; Source coding; Viterbi algorithm;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9448
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIT.1974.1055233
Filename
1055233
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