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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2012, Article ID 539638, 20 pages doi:10.1155/2012/539638 Research Article An Adaptive Lossless Data Compression Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Jonathan Gana Kolo,1 S. Anandan Shanmugam,1 David Wee Gin Lim,1 Li-Minn Ang,2 and Kah Phooi Seng3 1 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, Selangor Darul Ehsan, 43500 Semenyih, Malaysia 2 School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia 3 School of Computer Technology, Sunway University, 5 Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to Jonathan Gana Kolo, keyx1jgk@.my Received 4 July 2012; Revised 10 September 2012; Accepted 10 September 2012 Academic Editor: Eugenio Martinelli Copyright © 2012 Jonathan Gana Kolo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Energy is an important consideration in the design and deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) since sensor nodes are typically powered by batteries with limited capacity. Since the communication unit on a wireless sensor node is the major power consumer, data compression is one of possible techniques that can help reduce the amount of data exchanged between wireless sensor nodes resulting in power saving. However, wireless sensor networks possess significant limitations in communication, processing, storage, bandwidth, and power. Thus, any data compression scheme proposed for WSNs must be lightweight. In this paper, we present an