Data Compression of Poisson Processes.

Abstract

In the paper, the author derives rate-distortion functions, under proper magnitude-error fidelity criteria, and studies instrumentable data-compression schemes for Poisson processes. In particular, the author derives information rates and obtains rate-distortion relationships for practical data-compression schemes, for the reproduction of the unordered sequency of poisson event occurrences, for the reproduction of the sample functions of the Poisson counting process, and for the reproduction of the sequence of intervals between the event occurrences of a Poisson process. The reproducing processes are taken to be point (or jump) processes themselves. The performances of the various data-compression schemes presented here are compared with those of the ideal schemes (as presented by the rate-distortion functions), and are shown to be close to the latter over wide regions of distortion. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0772565

Entities

People

  • Izhak Rubin

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Compression
  • Data Compression
  • Distortion
  • Intervals
  • Reliability

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Statistical inference.