Support material for: "On Successive Refinement of the Binary Symmetric Markov Source"

This technical report contains the proofs of a number of results that characterize for any n > 1 and for a certain high distortion region (Dn, 1/2), the symbols that are employed in the construction of good lossy codes for the nth order approximatin to the binary symmetric Markov source (BSMSn). These results are used is Lastras, Berger [1] to demontrate that for every n > 2, the BSMSn is not successively refinable [2], [3], [4].

By: Luis Lastras, Toby Berger

Published in: RC23160 in 2004

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