2 things.
1. Wow that's cool.
2. Is this technology not patented by Digital Fountain? (now Qualcomm?)
I remember when I first heard of fountain codecs, I thought it was science
fiction based on the description :-).
Dave
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Tom Hawkins tomahawk...@gmail.com
1. Wow that's cool.
Indeed.
2. Is this technology not patented by Digital Fountain? (now Qualcomm?)
I'm sure it is. This library is a naive implementation of LT codes,
which have nowhere near the performance of Digital Fountain's Raptor
codes.
I remember when I first heard of fountain
This library [1] implements a fountain code [2]. Fountain codes are
forward error correction codes for erasure channels [3]. A fountain
code encodes a message into an infinite stream of packets --
transmitters generate message packets at random, on-the-fly. To
reconstruct the message, receivers
