Source Coding Theorem

Quentin Hibon 📧 and Lawrence C. Paulson 📧

October 19, 2016

Abstract

This document contains a proof of the necessary condition on the code rate of a source code, namely that this code rate is bounded by the entropy of the source. This represents one half of Shannon's source coding theorem, which is itself an equivalence.

License

BSD License

Topics

Session Source_Coding_Theorem