@hackage fountain0.1
A fountain codec.
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BSD-3-Clause
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Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins@gmail.com> RubenAstudillo <ruben.astud@gmail.com>
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- base >=4.0 && <6
- containers >=0.3
- random >=1.0 Show all…
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@hackage/acme-everything
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.