The performance of communication and storage systems can be improved if the
data being sent or stored has certain patterns and structure. In particular, some
benefit if the frequency of the symbols is balanced. This includes magnetic and
optical data storage devices, as well as future holographic storage systems. Significant
research has been done to develop techniques and algorithms to adapt the data (in
a reversible manner) to these systems. The goal has been to restructure the data to
improve performance while keeping the complexity as low as possible.
In this thesis, we consider balancing binary sequences and present its application
in holographic storage systems. An overview is given of different approaches, as
well as a survey of previous balancing methods. We show that common compression
algorithms can be used for this purpose both alone and combined with other balancing
algorithms. Simplified models are analyzed using information theory to determine the
extent of the compression in this context. Simulation results using standard data are
presented as well as theoretical analysis for the performance of the combination of
compression with other balancing algorithms. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/3775 |
| Date | 23 December 2011 |
| Creators | Pourtavakoli, Saamaan |
| Contributors | Gulliver, T. Aaron |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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