On improving Tunstall codes

  • Authors:
  • Shmuel T. Klein;Dana Shapira

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel;Dept. of Computer Science, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon 78211, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Though many compression methods are based on the use of variable length codes, there has recently been a trend to search for alternatives in which the lengths of the codewords are more restricted, which can have useful applications, such as easier processing and fast decoding. This paper explores the construction of variable-to-fixed length codes, which have been suggested long ago by Tunstall. Using new heuristics based on suffix trees, the performance of Tunstall codes can in some cases be improved by more than 40%.