Name
Abstract | ||
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The proliferation of applications that must reliably distribute large, rich content to a vast number of autonomous receivers motivates the design of new multicast and broadcast protocols. We describe an ideal, fully scalable protocol for these applications that we call a digital fountain. A digital fountain allows any number of heterogeneous receivers to acquire content with optimal efficiency at times of their choosing. Moreover, no feedback channels are needed to ensure reliable delivery, even in the face of high loss rates. We develop a protocol that closely approximates a digital fountain using two new classes of erasure codes that for large block sizes are orders of magnitude faster than standard erasure codes. We provide performance measurements that demonstrate the feasibility of our approach and discuss the design, implementation, and performance of an experimental system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2002 | 10.1109/JSAC.2002.803996 | Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Internet,Reed-Solomon codes,decoding,error correction codes,forward error correction,multicast communication,performance evaluation,transport protocols,FEC codes,IP multicast,Internet,Luby transform codes,RS codes,Reed-Solomon codes,Tornado codes,asynchronous reliable multicast,autonomous receivers,broadcast protocols,bulk data distribution,content distribution methods,decoder,digital fountain,erasure codes,experimental system performance,forward error correction,heterogeneous receivers,high loss rates,interoperability,large block size,multicast protocol,optimal efficiency,performance measurements,scalable protocol,simulation results | Asynchronous communication,Forward error correction,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Reliable multicast,Tornado code,Multicast,Erasure code,IP multicast,Scalability | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
20 | 8 | 0733-8716 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
292 | 20.31 | 23 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byers, J.W. | 1 | 292 | 20.31 |
| Michael Luby | 2 | 9010 | 1319.35 |
| Michael Mitzenmacher | 3 | 7386 | 730.89 |