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by pangram 5234 days ago
Based on a paper in 2007: http://allegro.mit.edu/pubs/posted/journal/2007-erez-trott-w... Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US8023570
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Thank you for this, it's quite difficult to follow the paper trail to the exact algorithm they're talking about. I had seen a talk about an extension to Reed-Solomon that promised more efficiency and was hoping this would talk about that, instead it looks like a wireless-optimized fountain code.