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

[coderman]

On 6/16/05, Gregory P. Smith <greg at electricrain.com> wrote:
> This paper on using network coding for p2p content distribution swarm
> speedups is interesting.

the decentralization of coding process (end nodes as well as
seeds/server perform encoding functions) is a nifty improvement in
this model.  it is also CPU intensive which may affect throughput
negatively in a way that bittorrent and/or central coding schemes do
not.

real world comparison with bittorrent / other systems on heterogeneous
hardware would be interesting.