Dynamic huffman coding

DOI10.1016/0196-6774(85)90036-7zbMath0606.94007MaRDI QIDQ3745760

Donald E. Knuth

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0196-6774(85)90036-7

zbMATH Keywords

prefix code; Huffman tree; file compression; weighted path length; One-pass algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68R10: Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science

68P05: Data structures

94A45: Prefix, length-variable, comma-free codes

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