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

[Nigini Oliveira]

Just found this text going at the point... I don't know, but appears that
this guy is connected with BitTorrent development...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bramcohen/1416.html

On 12/6/05, Nigini Oliveira <nigini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi ALL!
>
> Don't know specifically about BitTorrent, but I've found a lot of results
> talking about the gains of using ECC for improving the availability of data
> at p2p networks:
> http://www.citeulike.org/user/nigini/article/274016 (not readed)
>
> These days I'm working on a paper's analisis that talks about using
> "Erasure Codes" to do that (maybe one day I can finish my model on it):
> http://www.citeulike.org/user/nigini/article/307402 (this is pretty hard
> to understand)
>
> Searching now I've found this one page work exposing some "interesting"
> data:
> http://dmi.ensica.fr/IMG/pdf/347.pdf
>
> After I began to study about ECC this year I can't stop finding examples
> of using them at network/computing world. But as Arnaud sad: " Such codes
> are terribly sexy, but when it comes to real applications, things are far
> less sexy." But as I didn't got yet that for BitTorrent the "less sexy"
> means "don't needed", maybe the above work can inspire some answer.
>
> "Até mais!"
>
> --
> Nigini Abilio Oliveira
> Mestrando em Computação
> UFCG - DSC - COPIN
> www.nigini.com.br
> nigini at gmail.com
> nigini at dsc.ufcg.edu.br




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Nigini Abilio Oliveira
Mestrando em Computação
UFCG - DSC - COPIN
www.nigini.com.br
nigini at gmail.com
nigini at dsc.ufcg.edu.br
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