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

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:47:18PM +0100, Justin Cormack 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

I assumed it probably uses something digital fountain stuff covers
given that they did mention it somewhere in the paper.  Regardless
that warning is standard practice with these algorithms.

I was disappointed that the paper didn't really cover the
computational costs.  cpu vendors would love this stuff.  gotta have a
multicore machine with memory bandwidth to sit there continuosly
computing new codes over your entire dataset. ;)

-g