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

[Nick Johnson]

On 20/06/2005, at 10:48 AM, coderman wrote:

> wireless broadcast (at the data packet layer, not just
> physical/transport) is another environment where these codes are
> useful for the same kind of unidirectional bulk transport.  there are
> lots of potential uses for these codes but a centralized tracker is
> not one of them.
>
> [it would be interesting to see if Bram reconsiders these type of
> decentralized network codes for a trackerless DHT torrent network,
> assuming CPU requirements were not prohibitive]

How is the use or otherwise of a tracker in any way related to the  
use of rateless codes?

-Nick Johnson
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