Variable-Length Codes for Data Compression

By: David Salomon

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Paperback | 25 October 2007

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Most data compression methods that are based on variable-length codes employ the Huffman or Golomb codes. However, there are a large number of less-known codes that have useful properties - such as those containing certain bit patterns, or which are robust - and these can be useful. This book brings this large set of codes to the attention of workers in the field and of students of computer science.

David Salomon's crystal clear style of writing and presentation, which has been familiar to readers for many years now allows easy access to the topic. Readers are only required to have a general familiarity with computer methods and essentially an understanding of the representation of data in bits and files.

Computer scientists, electrical engineers and students majoring in computer science or electrical engineering will find this volume an invaluable resource, as will those readers in various physical sciences and mathematics.

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"...the greatest contribution of this book is that it brings together and describes such a large number of codes in a succinct manner. ...this book introduces the reader to many lesser-known codes, and conveys an appreciation for the wide variety of codes that exists. ...the author focuses on the principles underlying the codes ...the author includes many diagrams and examples to explain how the algorithms work. In summary, this is a great book for someone new to coding, as well as for someone who just wants to catch up on some of the more contemporary codes."

(W. Hu, ACM Computing Reviews, January 2009)

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Databases Computer Security Data Encryption Computer Programming & Software Development Algorithms & Data Structures Graphical & Digital Media Applications

Basic Codes	p. 9
Codes, Fixed- and Variable-Length	p. 9
Prefix Codes	p. 12
VLCs, Entropy, and Redundancy	p. 13
Universal Codes	p. 18
The Kraft-McMillan Inequality	p. 19
Tunstall Code	p. 21
Schalkwijk's Coding	p. 23
Tjalkens-Willems V-to-B Coding	p. 28
Phased-In Codes	p. 31
Redundancy Feedback (RF) Coding	p. 33
Recursive Phased-In Codes	p. 37
Self-Delimiting Codes	p. 40
Huffman Coding	p. 42
Advanced Codes	p. 69
VLCs for Integers	p. 69
Start-Step-Stop Codes	p. 71
Start/Stop Codes	p. 73
Elias Codes	p. 74
Levenstein Code	p. 80
Even-Rodeh Code	p. 81
Punctured Elias Codes	p. 82
Other Prefix Codes	p. 83
Ternary Comma Code	p. 86
Location Based Encoding (LBE)	p. 87
Stout Codes	p. 89
Boldi-Vigna ([zeta]) Codes	p. 91
Yamamoto's Recursive Code	p. 94
VLCs and Search Trees	p. 97
Taboo Codes	p. 100
Wang's Flag Code	p. 105
Yamamoto Flag Code	p. 106
Number Bases	p. 110
Fibonacci Code	p. 112
Generalized Fibonacci Codes	p. 116
Goldbach Codes	p. 120
Additive Codes	p. 126
Golomb Code	p. 129
Rice Codes	p. 136
Subexponential Code	p. 138
Codes Ending with "1"	p. 139
Robust Codes	p. 143
Codes For Error Control	p. 143
The Free Distance	p. 149
Synchronous Prefix Codes	p. 150
Resynchronizing Huffman Codes	p. 156
Bidirectional Codes	p. 159
Symmetric Codes	p. 168
VLEC Codes	p. 170
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