Efficient decoding of prefix codes

  • Authors:
  • Daniel S. Hirschberg;Debra A. Lelewer

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California at Irvine, Irvine;Univ. of California at Irvine, Irvine

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

A special case of the data compression problem is presented, in which a powerful encoder transmits a coded file to a decoder that has severely constrained memory. A data structure that achieves minimum storage is presented, and alternative methods that sacrifice a small amount of storage to attain faster decoding are described.