DocumentCode
1003290
Title
Fast and efficient variable-to-fixed length coding algorithm
Author
Algra, T.
Author_Institution
Nat. Aerospace Lab., Emmeloord, Netherlands
Volume
28
Issue
15
fYear
1992
fDate
7/16/1992 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1399
Lastpage
1401
Abstract
Variable-to-fixed-length coding implementations, according to the Tunstall algorithm, are shown to be significantly less complex than fixed-to-variable-length coding schemes such as the Huffman scheme. A modified version of Tunstall coding is presented, with improved compression ratio.
Keywords
decoding; encoding; Tunstall coding; coding efficiency; compression ratio; decoding algorithm; encoder algorithm; variable-to-fixed length coding algorithm;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19920890
Filename
256037
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