An Almost Sure Convergence Proof of the Sliding Window Lempel Ziv Algorithm

An almost sure convergence proof of the sliding window Lempel
Ziv algorithm (LZ77) is given. The proof is valid for those sources that
in addition of being stationary and ergodic, have exponential rates for
entropy.

By: Luis A. Lastras

Published in: Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE, p.121 in 2002

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