Using Fibonacci compression codes as alternatives to dense codes

Shmuel T. Klein, Miri Kopel Ben-Nissan

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Abstract

Recent publications advocate the use of various variable length codes for which each codeword consists of an integral number of bytes in compression applications using large alphabets. This paper shows that another tradeoff with similar properties can be obtained by Fibonacci codes. These are fixed codeword sets, using binary representations of integers based on Fibonacci numbers of order m ≥ 2. Fibonacci codes have been used before, and this paper extends previous work presenting several novel features. In particular, they compress better and are more robust, at the price of being slower.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2008 Data Compression Conference, DCC 2008
Pages472-481
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 Data Compression Conference, DCC 2008 - Snowbird, UT, United States
Duration: 25 Mar 200827 Mar 2008

Publication series

NameData Compression Conference Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1068-0314

Conference

Conference2008 Data Compression Conference, DCC 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySnowbird, UT
Period25/03/0827/03/08

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