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Could this technique be used for UDP data transfer over a lossy long fat pipe? I’ve been testing Tsunami-UDP, and although it works for most lossy networks, ex
by jmpman 8y ago
Could this technique be used for UDP data transfer over a lossy long fat pipe? I’ve been testing Tsunami-UDP, and although it works for most lossy networks, extremely lossy networks severely throttle it. A fountain code implementation should achieve full channel capacity. Has anyone implemented such a tool in open source, or are the commercial UDP data transfer tools using this as a patented method?
- baruch 8y agoYes, it works over udp. I've worked in the past in a startup that used fountain codes to transmit data over multicast and it worked beautifully. There was no need to retransmit specific packets and we only need to know when everyone got the file rather than what specific packets each client lost.