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Fountain Codes

Fountain Code is a type of rateless erasure code that generates an potentially infinite stream of encoded symbols from a finite set of source symbols, enabling reliable reconstruction of the original data from any sufficiently large subset of the encoded symbols.

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235

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2017–2026

48

Variants

Fountain CodeRateless Erasure CodeRateless Erasure Codes

Parents

Publications

224

Fountain codes

David Mackay · IEE Proceedings - Communications · 2005 · 886 citations

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Reliable Multimedia Download Delivery in Cellular Broadcast Networks

Michael Luby, Tiago Espinha Gasiba, Thomas Stockhammer et al. · IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting · 2007 · 237 citations

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Digital fountains: a survey and look forward

Michael Mitzenmacher · Manufacturing Engineer · 2005 · 227 citations

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Performance of Fountain Codes in Collaborative Relay Networks

Andreas F. Molisch, Neelesh B. Mehta, Jonathan S. Yedidia et al. · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 2007 · 200 citations

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Rateless coding over fading channels

Jeff Castura, Yongyi Mao · IEEE Communications Letters · 2006 · 189 citations

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Authors

547

  1. SY
    Shahram Yousefi

    Queen's University, Canada

    7 publications · 172 citations

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  2. BV
    Branka Vucetic

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    6 publications · 165 citations

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  3. HJ
    H. Jenkac

    Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany

    6 publications · 142 citations

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  4. DS
    Dino Sejdinović

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 428 citations

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  5. TS
    Thomas Stockhammer

    Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany

    6 publications · 529 citations

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Institutions

235

  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Stockholm, Sweden

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    375 citations

  2. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    287 citations

  3. Queen's University

    Kingston, Canada

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    419 citations

  4. Harbin Institute of Technology

    Harbin, China

    7 h-index

    28 publications

    572 citations

  5. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    7 h-index

    19 publications

    716 citations

  6. Texas A&M University

    College Station, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    424 citations

  7. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    936 citations

  8. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    6 h-index

    20 publications

    521 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Communications

    15 publications · 511 citations

    14

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  2. IEEE Communications Letters

    14 publications · 659 citations

    13

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

    10 publications · 282 citations

    10

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

    5 publications · 309 citations

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

    5 publications · 316 citations

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