Prefix code

Known as: Prefix free code, Fixed-length code, Prefix codes

A prefix code is a type of code system (typically a variable-length code) distinguished by its possession of the "prefix property", which requires…

Papers overview

Semantic Scholar uses AI to extract papers important to this topic.

2013

We use the notion of a partial action of a monoid to introduce a generalization of automata, which we call "a preautomaton". We…

2012

Parallel-prefix adders (also known as carry-tree adders) are known to have the best performance in VLSI designs compared to that…

2007

Huffman coding finds an optimal prefix code for a given probability mass function. Consider situations in which one wishes to…

2004

In this correspondence, we study algorithmic approach to solving the problem of maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation of Markov…

2004

Maximal instantaneous codes are characterized by the property that they allow unique parsing of every infinite string. The…

2004

A software module is an abstraction of a program: it has a well dened functionality, operations by which the environment ac…

2003

Prefix-free codes continue to enjoy widespread use in compression systems due to their simple structure and their ease of…

1995

It is common sense to notice that one needs fewer digits to code numbers in ternary than in binary; new names are about log32…

1977

By coding fixed-length blocks of symbols from an information source with a minimum redundancy (the variable-length Huffman code…

1975

We introduce an elementary family of prefix codes, which is closely related to many other families of prefix codes.