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The modern data compression is mainly based on two approaches to entropy coding: Huffman (HC) and arithmetic/range coding (AC). The former is much faster, but approximates probabilities with powers of 2, usually leading to relatively low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Jarek Duda

This paper describes a new set of block source codes well suited for data compression. These codes are defined by sets of productions rules of the form a.l->b, where a in A represents a value from the source alphabet A and l, b are -small-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Herve Jegou , Christine Guillemot

Training and serving Large Language Models (LLMs) require partitioning data across multiple accelerators, where collective operations are frequently bottlenecked by network bandwidth. Lossless compression using Huffman codes is an effective…

In this work, a coding technique called cost constrained Geometric Huffman coding (ccGhc) is developed. ccGhc minimizes the Kullback-Leibler distance between a dyadic probability mass function (pmf) and a target pmf subject to an affine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-29 Georg Böcherer , Fabian Altenbach , Martina Malsbender , Rudolf Mathar

This article shows that any type of binary data can be defined as a collection from codewords of variable length. This feature helps us to define an Injective and surjective function from the suggested codewords to the required codewords.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Parviz Gharehbagheri , Sayeed Hamid Haji Sayeed Javadi , Parvaneh Asghari , Naser Gharehbagheri

Huffman-coded sphere shaping (HCSS) is an algorithm for finite-length probabilistic constellation shaping, which provides nearly optimal energy efficiency at low implementation complexity. In this paper, we experimentally study the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Pavel Skvortcov , Ian Phillips , Wladek Forysiak , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Keisuke Kojima , Kieran Parsons , David S. Millar

A new approach to joint source-channel coding is presented in the context of communicating correlated sources over multiple access channels. Similar to the separation architecture, the joint source-channel coding system architecture in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Paolo Minero , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

As the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for monitoring purposes becomes ubiquitous, the efficiency of sensor communication is a major issue for the modern Internet. Channel coding is less efficient for extremely short packets, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Siddharth Chandak , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

Communication in poor network environment is always a difficult problem, since troubles such as bit errors and packet loss may often occur. It is generally believed that it is impossible to transmit data both accurately and efficiently in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ye Tianyi

In this paper, we introduce OBHS (Optimized Block Huffman Scheme), a novel lossless audio compression algorithm tailored for real-time streaming applications. OBHS leverages block-wise Huffman coding with canonical code representation and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Muntahi Safwan Mahfi , Md. Manzurul Hasan , Gahangir Hossain

Many data compressors regularly encode probability distributions for entropy coding - requiring minimal description length type of optimizations. Canonical prefix/Huffman coding usually just writes lengths of bit sequences, this way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jarek Duda

We investigate two source coding problems with secrecy constraints. In the first problem we consider real--time fully secure transmission of a memoryless source. We show that although classical variable--rate coding is not an option since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Yonatan Kaspi , Neri Merhav

We consider the problem of joint source and channel coding of structured data such as natural language over a noisy channel. The typical approach to this problem in both theory and practice involves performing source coding to first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nariman Farsad , Milind Rao , Andrea Goldsmith

The performance gain by allowing half-duplex source cooperation is studied for Gaussian interference channels. The source cooperation is {\em in-band}, meaning that each source can listen to the other source's transmission, but there is no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Rui Wu , Vinod Prabhakaran , Pramod Viswanath , Yi Wang

Permutation codes are a class of structured vector quantizers with a computationally-simple encoding procedure based on sorting the scalar components. Using a codebook comprising several permutation codes as subcodes preserves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Ha Q. Nguyen , Lav R. Varshney , Vivek K Goyal

We address the problem of coding for classical broadcast channels, which entails maximizing the success probability that can be achieved by sending a fixed number of messages over a broadcast channel. For point-to-point channels, Barman and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Omar Fawzi , Paul Fermé

Coded caching leverages the differences in user cache memories to achieve gains that scale with the total cache size, alleviating network congestion due to high-quality content requests. Additionally, distributing transmitters over a wide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kagan Akcay , Eleftherios Lampiris , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, source coding or data compression is viewed as a measurement problem. Given a measurement device with fewer states than the observable of a stochastic source, how can one capture the essential information? We propose modeling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nithin Nagaraj

The construction of a channel code by using a source code with decoder side information is introduced. For the construction, any pair of encoder and decoder is available for a source code with decoder side information. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jun Muramatsu , Shigeki Miyake

Some state-of-art multimedia source encoders produce embedded source bit streams that upon the reliable reception of only a fraction of the total bit stream, the decoder is able reconstruct the source up to a basic quality. Reliable…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Suayb S. Arslan