[p2p-hackers] network coding put to practical p2p content dist. use

[Justin Cormack]

Gregory P. Smith wrote:

>This paper on using network coding for p2p content distribution swarm
>speedups is interesting.
>
> http://www.research.microsoft.com/~pablo/papers/nc_contentdist.pdf
>
>(beware of patents)
>  
>

Yes it was quite interesting.

 From the patent point of view, which were you thinking of? Do you think 
it would be covered by the digital fountain patents (I havent looked at 
their patents just the papers so I am not sure how they are written).

The computational costs are pretty high.

Justin