“…Practical solutions to this problem have been the grouping of codevectors into sets (i.e. shells or leader classes) and entropy encoding of the index of the set while the vector index within the set is encoded using enumerative coding (Vasilache & Tabus, 2001), (Rault & Guillemot, 2001), (Moureaux et al, 1998), (Loyer et al, 2003). However, the large number of leader classes for some particular truncation shapes, makes their use less practical.…”