A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes

✍ Scribed by Huffman, D.A.

• Book ID: 114567823
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1011 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-8390
• DOI: 10.1109/jrproc.1952.273898

✦ Synopsis

An optimum method of coding an ensemble of mes- sages consisting of a finite number of members is developed. A minimum-redundancy code is one constructed in such a way that the average number of coding digits per message is minimized.