A random linear network coding approach to multicast

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4413-4430

  Ho, Tracey ^a,b   Médard, Muriel ^a,b   Koetter, Ralf ^a,c   Karger, David R ^a,d   Effros, Michalle ^a,e   Shi, Jun ^b,f,g   Leong, Ben ^b,h,i  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distributed compression; Distributed networking; Multicast; Network coding; Random linear coding

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSION; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKING; NETWORK CODING; RANDOM LINEAR CODING;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA COMPRESSION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

EID: 33947399169     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2006.881746     Document Type: Article

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