ABSTRACT
The science and art of data compression is presenting information in a compact form. This compact representation of information is generated by recognizing the use of structures that exist in the data. The Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm is known to be one of the best compressors of text which achieve a high degree of compression. This is possible for text files with lots of redundancies. Thus, the greater the redundancies, the greater the compression achieved. In this paper, the LZW algorithm is further enhanced to achieve a higher degree of compression without compromising its performances through the introduction of an algorithm, called Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT), is presented. Compression Time and Compression Ratio was used for performance metrics. Simulations was carried out using MATLAB for five (5) text files (of varying sizes) in determining the efficiency of the proposed CRT-LZW technique. This new technique has opened a new development of increasing the speed of compressing data than the traditional LZW. The results show that the CRT-LZW performs better than LZW in terms of computational time by 0.12s to 15.15s, while the compression ratio remains same with 2.56% respectively. The proposed compression time also performed better than some investigative papers implementing LZW-RNS by 0.12s to 2.86s and another by 0.12s to 0.14s.
Keywords: Data Compression, Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm, Enhancement, Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT), Text files.
