%0 Journal Article
%T Lossless Compression Performance of a Simple Counter-Based Entropy Coder
%A Armein Z R Langi
%J ITB Journal of Information and Communication Technology
%D 2011
%I Institut Teknologi Bandung
%R 10.5614/itbj.ict.2011.5.3.2
%X This paper describes the performance of a simple counter based entropy coder, as compared to other entropy coders, especially Huffman coder. Lossless data compression, such as Huffman coder and arithmetic coder, are designed to perform well over a wide range of data entropy. As a result, the coders require significant computational resources that could be the bottleneck of a compression implementation performance. In contrast, counter-based coders are designed to be optimal on a limited entropy range only. This paper shows the encoding and decoding process of counter-based coder can be simple and fast, very suitable for hardware and software implementations. It also reports that the performance of the designed coder is comparable to that of a much more complex Huffman coder.
%K entropy coder
%K counter-based coder
%K lossless compression
%K Rice coders.
%U http://journal.itb.ac.id/download.php?file=C10187.pdf&id=787&up=10