Fwd: Erasure Coding

Dirk Loss lists at dirk-loss.de
Sun Dec 1 22:05:14 UTC 2013


Hi David,

On 01.12.13 17:25, David Vorick wrote:
> Cluster size should be dynamic (fountain codes?) to support a cluster
> that grows and shrinks in demand.

Jonathan Perry's libwireless library has Python bindings and includes
several Error correcting codes (spinal codes, raptor, LT, LDPC, strider,
turbo).
http://www.yonch.com/wireless

Some say spinal codes are faster than Raptor, but sadly they seem to be
patented as well:
http://nms.csail.mit.edu/spinal/
http://www.google.com/patents/US20120213307

Regards
Dirk



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