Fast and efficient construction of an unbiased random sequence

  • Authors:
  • B. Y. Ryabko;E. Matchikina

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Appl. Math. & Cybernetics, Siberian State Univ. of Telecommun. & Inf. Sci., Novosibirsk;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The problem of converting a sequence of symbols generated by a Bernoulli source into an unbiased random sequence is well-known in information theory. The proposed method is based on Elias' (1972) algorithm in which the sequence of symbols is divided into blocks of length N,N⩾1. We suggest a new method of constructing an unbiased random sequence which uses O(Nlog2N) bits of memory and takes O(log8Nloglog(N)) bit operations per letter