Article: A Huffman-based short message service compression technique using adjacent distance array Journal: International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT) 2024 Vol.25 No.2 pp.118 - 136 Abstract: The short message service (SMS) is a wireless medium of transmission that allows you to send brief text messages. Cell phone devices have an uttermost SMS capacity of 1,120 bits in the traditional system. Moreover, the conventional SMS employs seven bits for each character, allowing the highest 160 characters for an SMS text message to be transmitted. This research demonstrated that an SMS message could contain more than 200 characters by representing around five bits each, introducing a data structure, namely, adjacent distance array (ADA) using the Huffman principle. Allowing the concept of lossless data compression technique, the proposed method of the research generates character's codeword utilising the standard Huffman. However, the ADA encodes the message by putting the ASCII value distances of all characters, and decoding performs by avoiding the whole Huffman tree traverse, which is the pivotal contribution of the research to develop an effective SMS compression technique for personal digital assistants (PDAs). The encoding and decoding processes have been discussed and contrasted with the conventional SMS text message system, where our proposed ADA technique performs outstandingly better from every aspect discovered after evaluating all outcomes. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: A Huffman-based short message service compression technique using adjacent distance array

Authors: Pranta Sarker; Mir Lutfur Rahman

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, North East University Bangladesh, Telihaor, Sheikhghat, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh ' Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Abstract: The short message service (SMS) is a wireless medium of transmission that allows you to send brief text messages. Cell phone devices have an uttermost SMS capacity of 1,120 bits in the traditional system. Moreover, the conventional SMS employs seven bits for each character, allowing the highest 160 characters for an SMS text message to be transmitted. This research demonstrated that an SMS message could contain more than 200 characters by representing around five bits each, introducing a data structure, namely, adjacent distance array (ADA) using the Huffman principle. Allowing the concept of lossless data compression technique, the proposed method of the research generates character's codeword utilising the standard Huffman. However, the ADA encodes the message by putting the ASCII value distances of all characters, and decoding performs by avoiding the whole Huffman tree traverse, which is the pivotal contribution of the research to develop an effective SMS compression technique for personal digital assistants (PDAs). The encoding and decoding processes have been discussed and contrasted with the conventional SMS text message system, where our proposed ADA technique performs outstandingly better from every aspect discovered after evaluating all outcomes.

Keywords: data compression; SMS compression; Huffman coding; data structure; adjacent distance array; ADA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2024.140309

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2024 Vol.25 No.2, pp.118 - 136

Received: 24 Jan 2022
Accepted: 02 Jun 2022
Published online: 02 Aug 2024 *

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