A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:952348, abstract = {The proliferation of applications that must reliably distribute bulk data to a large number of autonomous clients motivates the design of new multicast and broadcast protocols. We describe an ideal, fully scalable protocol for these applications that we call a digital fountain. A digital fountain allows any number of heterogeneous clients to acquire bulk data with optimal efficiency at times of their choosing. Moreover, no feedback channels are needed to ensure reliable delivery, even in the...}, author = {Byers, John W. and Luby, Michael and Mitzenmacher, Michael and Rege, Ashutosh}, booktitle = {SIGCOMM}, citeulike-article-id = {952348}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.921}, keywords = {mitcite}, pages = {56--67}, posted-at = {2006-11-19 23:01:01}, priority = {1}, title = {A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.921}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:952348 L3 - citeulike-article-id:952348 N2 - The proliferation of applications that must reliably distribute bulk data to a large number of autonomous clients motivates the design of new multicast and broadcast protocols. We describe an ideal, fully scalable protocol for these applications that we call a digital fountain. A digital fountain allows any number of heterogeneous clients to acquire bulk data with optimal efficiency at times of their choosing. Moreover, no feedback channels are needed to ensure reliable delivery, even in the... EP - 67 TI - A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data T2 - SIGCOMM SP - 56 KW - mitcite AU - Byers, John AU - Luby, Michael AU - Mitzenmacher, Michael AU - Rege, Ashutosh PY - 1998/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.921 ER -