A novel Huffman coding based approach to reduce the size of large data array

Abstract

While dealing with large data array required in various applications, the memory required for the data storage and data transfer of that bulk data becomes difficult. If the array size can be reduced without losing the data, the problem of storage and data transfer can be avoided. In this paper, a Huffman Coding based data compression algorithm is proposed and tested in MATLAB environment which will significantly reduce the size of one dimensional data array. Though the algorithm is tested with number array only, the algorithm can be extended to be applied with character array with slight modification.