The document discusses Huffman tree coding, which is a variable-length encoding technique that assigns codewords of different lengths to symbols based on their frequency of occurrence. It explains how to create a Huffman tree from symbol frequencies, derive the Huffman codes, and use the codes to encode and decode messages. An example is provided where the frequencies of letters in an alphabet are used to generate a Huffman tree and codes, and a message is encoded and decoded to demonstrate the process.