On the Continuity of the Stationary State Distribution of DPCM
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1990
Abstract
Continuity and singularity properties of the stationary state distribution of differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) are explored. Two-level DPCM (i.e., delta modulation) operating on a first-order autoregressive source is considered, and it is shown that, when the magnitude of the DPCM prediction coefficient is between zero and one-half, the stationary state distribution is singularly continuous; i.e., it is not discrete but concentrates on an uncountable set with Lebesgue measure zero. Consequently, it cannot be represented with a probability density function. For prediction coefficients with magnitude greater than or equal to one-half, the distribution is pure; i.e., either absolutely continuous and representable with a density function, or singular. This problem is compared to the well-known and still substantially unsolved problem of symmetric Bernoulli convolutions. © 1990 IEEE
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
First Page
305
Last Page
311
Recommended Citation
Naraghi-Pour, M., & Neuhoff, D. (1990). On the Continuity of the Stationary State Distribution of DPCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 36 (2), 305-311. https://doi.org/10.1109/18.52477
