Lossless data compression techniques and their performance

This paper provides the study of various lossless data compression techniques and compares their performance and efficiency using time and space complexity. Data compression is itself a huge field in a computer science and it is used in reducing the size of data by removing the redundant characters or encoding the bits in data. We have used only lossless data compression techniques for compressing various media format files like text, doc, bmp, png and wav. Huffman coding which generates variable length codes for each symbol. LZW is a dictionary based technique and Shannon-Fano coding is used to generate binary code based on the frequency of each symbol. So we calculated the mean compression ratio, compression factor and compression time for various media files and result analysis of above data compression techniques will help to select the most appropriate method of compressing of any given file format in real world.