6.450 | Fall 2009 | Graduate

Principles of Digital Communication I

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Discrete source encoding

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Lecture presentation on discrete source encoding, reasons for binary interface, layering of source coding, discrete source coding, fixed-to-fixed length source codes, variable length source codes, unique decodability, prefix-free codes, the Kraft inequality, discrete memoryless sources, prefix-free codes for DMS, and entropy bounds.

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