Optimal prefix codes for pairs of geometrically-distributed random variables Frédérique Bassino, Julien Clément, Gadiel Seroussi, Alfredo Viola To cite this version: Frédérique Bassino, Julien Clément, Gadiel Seroussi, Alfredo Viola. Optimal prefix codes for pairs of geometrically-distributed random variables. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013, 59 (4), pp.2375 - 2395. 10.1109/TIT.2012.2236915. hal-00511248 HAL Id: hal-00511248 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00511248 Submitted on 24 Aug 2010 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Optimal prefix codes for pairs of geometrically-distributed random variables Fred´ erique´ Bassino LIPN UMR 7030 Universite´ Paris 13 - CNRS, France
[email protected] Julien Clement´ GREYC UMR 6072 CNRS, Universite´ de Caen, ENSICAEN, France
[email protected] Gadiel Seroussi HP Labs, Palo Alto, California and Universidad de la Republica,´ Montevideo, Uruguay
[email protected] Alfredo Viola Universidad de la Republica,´ Montevideo, Uruguay, and LIPN UMR 7030, Universite´ Paris 13 - CNRS, France
[email protected] Abstract Optimal prefix codes are studied for pairs of independent, integer-valued symbols emitted by a source with a geometric probability distribution of parameter q, 0<q<1.