Title :
It´s Been 1,000,000 Years Since Huffman
Author :
Moffat, Alistair
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Huffman codes are legendary in the computing disciplines, and are embedded in a wide range of critically important communications and storage codecs. With 2015 marking the 64th anniversary of their development -- 1,000,000 years in binary -- it is timely to review Huffman and related codes, and the many mechanisms that have been developed for computing and deploying them.
Keywords :
Huffman codes; Huffman codes; communications codecs; computing disciplines; storage codecs; Australia; Channel coding; Computer science; Fellows; Huffman coding; Huffman code; minimum-redundancy code; prefix code;
Conference_Titel :
Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Snowbird, UT
DOI :
10.1109/DCC.2015.87
