[p2p-hackers] Error correcting codes to prevent failure in BitTorrent like systems?

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:06:37PM -0800, coderman wrote:
> if a complete copy has not been distributed within the group then it
> doesn't matter what encoding mechanism you use, and in my experience
> this has been the usual cause of partial failures.

Out of curiosity, what's your dataset and how have you established
that the original seed failed to distribute at least one copy?

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon