An efficient compression technique using Lempel-Ziv algorithm based on dynamic source encoding scheme. (5th April 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Musa, Ahmed; Al-Dmour, Ayman; Al-Khaleel, Osama; Irshid, Mansour
• Is Part Of: International journal of information and communication technology. Volume 2:Number 3(2010)
• Page Start: 210
• Page End: 219
• Publication Date: 2010-04-05
• Subjects: text compression -- Lempel-Ziv algorithm -- ASCII code -- dynamic source encoding -- source entropy; Information technology -- Periodicals; Computer science -- Periodicals; Telecommunication -- Periodicals; 004.05
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1466-6642

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient text compression technique based on dynamic source encoding scheme using Lempel-Ziv algorithms. A statistical analysis is performed to count the occurrence of each character in the original source. Accordingly, each character is replaced by a weighted fixed-length code in lieu of arbitrary codes such as ASCII. This replacement generates an equivalent binary source with two symbols zero and one. Thereafter, the bitwise Lempel-Ziv algorithms can be applied to the nth-order extension binary source that contains 2n symbols. As a result, the proposed technique achieves a high compression ratio in comparison with those techniques that use static and arbitrary source encoding schemes. In the decompression process, a header file includes all characters sorted in descending order based on their frequency of occurrences along with the extension order (n) is received. Thus, each character can be restored back based on the code shared between the compression and decompression processes.