1996/05/01 by Peter Deutsch · 6 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Algorithms and Data Compression #Advanced Data Compression Techniques #Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques
paper · doi:10.17487/rfc1951
openalex publication_date 1996/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/06
This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. The data can be produced or consumed, even for an arbitrarily long sequentially presented input data stream, using only an a priori bounded amount of intermediate storage. The format can be implemented readily in a manner not covered by patents.