Fountain code
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Fountain code
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In coding theory, fountain codes are a class of erasure codes with the property that a potentially limitless sequence of encoding symbols can be generated from a given set of source symbols such that the original source symbols can ideally be recovered from any subset of the encoding symbols of size equal to or only slightly larger than the number of source symbols. The term fountain or rateless refers to the fact that these codes do not exhibit a fixed code rate. A fountain code is optimal if t
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Class of codes in coding theory
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2024-04-27T01:30:12Z
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