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Variable-length Non-overlapping Codes

Information Theory 2016-05-13 v1 Discrete Mathematics math.IT

Abstract

We define a variable-length code having the property that no (non-empty) prefix of each its codeword is a suffix of any other one, and vice versa. This kind of code can be seen as an extension of two well-known codes in literature, called respectively fix-free code and non-overlapping code. In this paper, some constructive algorithms for such codes are presented as well as numerical results about their cardinality.

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@article{arxiv.1605.03785,
  title  = {Variable-length Non-overlapping Codes},
  author = {Stefano Bilotta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03785},
  year   = {2016}
}