Skip to search formSkip to main contentSkip to account menu

Variable-length code

Known as: Variable Length Coding, Variable length code, Variable length encoding 
In coding theory a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. Variable-length codes can allow sources to… 
Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)

Papers overview

Semantic Scholar uses AI to extract papers important to this topic.
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
We demonstrate the use of impairment constraint routing for performance engineering of transparent metropolitan area optical… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
In this letter, we propose a generic and efficient algorithm that can construct both asymmetrical and symmetrical reversible… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
When using entropy coding over a noisy channel it is customary to protect the highly vulnerable bitstream with an error… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
  • V. Balakirsky
  • 1997
  • Corpus ID: 122094887
We consider an information transmission scheme where a stream of messages is encoded using a variable length code, and the code… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
When an error occurs in the encoded bit stream produced by a variable length code, the decoder may lose synchronization. A state… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
It is shown that the metric proposed originally by Fano for sequential decoding is precisely the required statistic for minimum… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Variable-length-to-block codes are a generalization of run-length codes. A coding theorem is first proved. When the codes are…