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A Digital Fountain Approach to Asynchronous Reliable Multicast.

Authors :
Byers, John W.
Luby, Michael
Mitzenmacher, Michael
Source :
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications; Oct2002, Vol. 20 Issue 8, p1528, 13p, 3 Diagrams, 5 Charts, 11 Graphs
Publication Year :
2002

Abstract

Describes an ideal, fully scalable protocol for digital fountain, which allows any number of heterogeneous receivers to acquire content with optimal efficiency. Motivator of the design of new multicast and broadcast protocols; Need for multicast or broadcast transmissions to be reliable; Problem with solutions based on adaptive retransmission.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
07338716
Volume :
20
Issue :
8
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
10181367
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2002.803996