A comma-free code is block code in which no concatenation of two code words contains a valid code word that overlaps both.
Comma-free codes are also known as self-synchronizing block codes because no synchronization is required to find the beginning of a code word.
See also
- Self-synchronizing code
- UTF-8, a comma-free character encoding
External links
References
S. W. Golomb; Gordon, Basil; L. R. Welch (1958). "Comma-free Codes". Canadian Journal of Mathematics. Canadian Mathematical Society: 202–209. doi:10.4153/CJM-1958-023-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=oRgtS14oa-sC&pg=PA202 ↩
Donald Knuth (11 December 2015). Universal Commafree Codes. Stanford University. Retrieved 6 February 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48iJx8FVuis ↩