Greedy versus Optimal Analysis of Bounded Size Dictionary Compression and On-the-Fly Distributed Computing.
Scalability and robustness are not an issue when compression is applied for massive data storage, in the context of distributed computing. Speeding up on-the-fly compression for data transmission is more controversial. In such case, a compression
technique merging together an adaptive and a non-adaptive approach has to be considered. A practical implementation of LZW (Lempel, Ziv and Welch) compression,called LZC (C indicates the Unix command ’compress’), has this characteristic. The