TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Freudenberger, Jürgen A1 - Rajab, Mohammed A1 - Rohweder, Daniel A1 - Safieh, Malek T1 - A codec architecture for the compression of short data blocks JF - Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers N2 - This work proposes a lossless data compression algorithm for short data blocks. The proposed compression scheme combines a modified move-to-front algorithm with Huffman coding. This algorithm is applicable in storage systems where the data compression is performed on block level with short block sizes, in particular, in non-volatile memories. For block sizes in the range of 1(Formula presented.)kB, it provides a compression gain comparable to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch algorithm. Moreover, encoder and decoder architectures are proposed that have low memory requirements and provide fast data encoding and decoding. Y1 - 2017 SN - 0218-1266 SS - 0218-1266 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126618500196 DO - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126618500196 VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 17 ER -