Talk:Fountain code

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Regarding the practical considerations:

I am currently working on my implementation of Online Codes for Ruby (http://rubyforge.org/projects/archipelago/ contains a gem for that), and I am actually achieving an average overhead of about 8-10% for 2000 packets.

I admit that the speed of my implementation is far from good enough at the moment, but the data overhead is quite alright. Does anyone care to comment?

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Sorry, but this is totally jargon-filled article. It is not suitable for an encyclopedia, but more for a specialized journal. I am an IT guy with tewnty years of experience and I cannot really understand the article (and I really want to!). I mean stuff like: "if and only if the BP algorithm over a check matrix H (or triangularization of a check matrix H) can recover most of input symbols." Oy!! Whut??

I understand that this is a complex subject, but please see if you can define many of the terms, or at least hyperlink them to where they might be understood by us amateurs. Rchakrav 16:58, 28 September 2007 (UTC)