Shannon's source coding theorem — In information theory, Shannon s source coding theorem (or noiseless coding theorem) establishes the limits to possible data compression, and the operational meaning of the Shannon entropy.The source coding theorem shows that (in the limit, as… … Wikipedia
Noisy-channel coding theorem — In information theory, the noisy channel coding theorem (sometimes Shannon s theorem), establishes that for any given degree of noise contamination of a communication channel, it is possible to communicate discrete data (digital information)… … Wikipedia
Distributed source coding — (DSC) is an important problem in information theory and communication. DSC problems regard the compression of multiple correlated information sources that do not communicate with each other.[1] By modeling the correlation between multiple sources … Wikipedia
Huffman coding — Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text this is an example of a huffman tree . The frequencies and codes of each character are below. Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 bits, as opposed of 288 bits if 36… … Wikipedia
Golomb coding — is a data compression scheme invented by Solomon W. Golomb in the 1960s. The scheme is based on entropy encoding and is optimal (in the sense of Shannon s source coding theorem) for alphabets following a geometric distribution, making it highly… … Wikipedia
Arithmetic coding — is a method for lossless data compression. Normally, a string of characters such as the words hello there is represented using a fixed number of bits per character, as in the ASCII code. Like Huffman coding, arithmetic coding is a form of… … Wikipedia
Shannon–Hartley theorem — In information theory, the Shannon–Hartley theorem tells the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted over a communications channel of a specified bandwidth in the presence of noise. It is an application of the noisy channel coding… … Wikipedia
Network coding — is a technique where, instead of simply relaying the packets of information they receive, the nodes of a network will take several packets and combine them together for transmission. This can be used to attain the maximum possible information… … Wikipedia
Adaptive Huffman coding — (also called Dynamic Huffman coding) is an adaptive coding technique based on Huffman coding. It permits building the code as the symbols are being transmitted, having no initial knowledge of source distribution, that allows one pass encoding and … Wikipedia
Information theory — Not to be confused with Information science. Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental… … Wikipedia
Asymptotic equipartition property — In information theory the asymptotic equipartition property (AEP) is a general property of the output samples of a stochastic source. It is fundamental to the concept of typical set used in theories of compression.Roughly speaking, the theorem… … Wikipedia