Abstract

Several measures are defined and investigated, which allow the comparison of codes as to their robustness against errors. Then new universal and complete sequences of variable-length codewords are proposed, based on representing the integers in a binary Fibonacci numeration system. Each sequence is constant and need not be generated for every probability distribution. These codes can be used as alternatives to Huffman codes when the optimal compression of the latter is not required, and simplicity, faster processing and robustness are preferred. The codes are compared on several "real-life" examples. 1. Motivation and Introduction Let A = fA 1 ; A 2 ; \Delta \Delta \Delta ; An g be a finite set of elements, called cleartext elements, to be encoded by a static uniquely decipherable (UD) code. For notational ease, we use the term `code' as abbreviation for `set of codewords'; the corresponding encoding and decoding algorithms are always either given or clear from the context. A code i...

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