Low-Complexity Compression of Short Messages

Stephan Alexander Rein, Clemens Gühmann, Frank H. P. Fitzek · 2006

We describe a low-complexity scheme for lossless compression of short text messages. The method uses arithmetic coding and a specific statistical context model for prediction of single symbols. Our particular contribution is a simple yet effective approach for storing highly complex statistics in a succinct yet effective data model that can easily be trained by text data. The proposed model already gives good compression rates with a RAM memory size of 128 kByte, thus making lossless data compression with statistical context modeling readily applicable to small devices like wireless sensors or mobile phones

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