Move-to-front and permutation based inversion coding

[Summary form only given]. Introduced by Bentley et al (1986), move-to-front (MTF) coding is an adaptive, self-organizing list (permutation) technique. Motivated with the MTF coder´s utilization of small size permutations which are restricted to the data source´s alphabet size, we investigate compression of data files by using the canonical sorting permutations followed by permutation based inversion coding (PBIC) from the set of {0, ..., n-1}, where n is the size of the data source. The technique introduced yields better compression gain than the MTF coder and improves the compression gain in block sorting techniques