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LT and Raptor Codes

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Channel Coding Techniques for Wireless Communications

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To partially compensate for the inefficiency of random codes, we can use Reed–Solomon codes, and these codes can be decoded from a block with the maximum possible number of erasures in time quadratic in the dimension.

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Rao, K.D. (2019). LT and Raptor Codes. In: Channel Coding Techniques for Wireless Communications. Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0561-4_9

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