, and we can say the Campbell bandwidth is the minimum average bandwidth for en-coding the process across all possible distortion levels. IX. CONCLUSION We have presented two new derivations of the coefficient rate in-troduced by Campbell. One derivation solidifies its interpretation as a coefficient rate, and shows that the spectral entropy of a random process is proportional to the logarithm of the equivalent bandwidth of the smallest frequency band that contains most of the energy. The second derivation implies that the number of samples of a particular component should be proportional to the variance of that component. We discussed the implications of the latter result for realization-adap-tive source coding and provided a connection with the familiar reverse water-filling result from rate distortion theory. From the coefficient rate, we defined a quantity called the Campbell bandwidth of a random process, and we contrasted Fourier bandwidth, Shannon bandwidth, and Campbell bandwidth. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors are indebted to the referees for their constructive com-ments and insights.

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I first thank my thesis advisors Thiemo Voigt and Adam Dunkels for being my excellent advisors, and also for being the great colleagues you still are. Thiemo and Adam have complemented each other superbly, giving me feedback, perspectives, insights, and having made every single new venture truly fun. My deepest thanks also go to my professor Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University. Per has in a seemingly easy way spotted erroneous assumptions, has valued my research contributions, and has connected my own work with another broader world of research. I want to thank all colleagues in the Networked Embedded Systems group:

Hiermit versichere ich, die vorliegende Diplomarbeit selbstständig und unter ausschliesslicher Verwendung der angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel angefertigt zu haben. Diese Arbeit hat in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch keiner Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, 14. Februar 2006