BD-LZW picture compression algorithm for WSN system

In the paper, a new parallel LZW-Like algorithm, bi-directory LZW algorithm (BD-LZW) will be interpreted. The new algorithm can be used in data compression/decompression system which runs on multi-microprocessor system, such as CELL, which the algorithm will be implemented on. Different from the conventional parallel LZW algorithm with one input directory, BD-LZW algorithm allows two threads reading characters from two ends of string. By this method, the data can be partitioned for compression/decompression loading between two threads fairly and easily. The most important is the compression performance can be improved by the new algorithm. Comparing running time, it's lower 10% than conventional parallel LZW (P-LZW) algorithm when there are two threads running on CELL architecture.