Ndzana, B. N.Shokrollahi, A.Abel, J.2007-01-162007-01-162007-01-16200610.1109/DCC.2006.9https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/239451This paper presents an algorithm in a purely lossless text compression setting based on fountain codes and the Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT). The scheme consists of five stages, each of which is briefly described in the paper. The algorithm offers encouraging compression rate performance for large files. A summary of the results of the proposed scheme and other compression schemes is provided.algoweb_fountainalgoweb_compressiontext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper