@hackage / fountain

A fountain codec.

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  • Last updated , by RubenAstudillo
  • License BSD-3-Clause

  • Maintained by: Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins@gmail.com> RubenAstudillo <ruben.astud@gmail.com>

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Fountain codes are forward error correction codes for erasure channels. They are able to recover lost packets without needing a backchannel. As a rateless code, transmitters generate packets at random, on the fly. Receivers then listen to as many packets as needed to reconstruct the message.