A SAT-Based Scheme to Determine Optimal Fix-free Codes Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Fix-free or reversible-variable-length codes are prefix condition codes which can also be decoded in the reverse direction. They have attracted attention from several communities and are used in video standards. Two variations of fix-free codes (with additional constraints) have also been considered for joint source-channel coding: 1) "symmetric" fix-free codes, which require the codewords to be palindromes; 2) fix-free codes with distance constraints on pairs of codewords. We propose a new approach to determine the existence of a fix-free code with a given set of codeword lengths, for each of the three variations of the problem. We also describe a branch-and-bound algorithm to find the collection of optimal codes for asymmetric and symmetric fix-free codes. 2010 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2010 Data Compression Conference

published proceedings

  • 2010 DATA COMPRESSION CONFERENCE (DCC 2010)

author list (cited authors)

  • Abedini, N., Khatri, S. P., & Savari, S. A.

citation count

  • 12

complete list of authors

  • Abedini, Navid||Khatri, Sunil P||Savari, Serap A

editor list (cited editors)

  • Storer, J. A., & Marcellin, M. W.

publication date

  • January 2010