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February 27, Wednesday
12:00 – 14:00

Erasure coding and rateless codes
Students seminar
Lecturer : Mr. Nir Tzachar
Lecturer homepage : http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~tzachar
Affiliation : Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University
Location : 202/37
Host : Student Seminar
This will be a kind of an erasure coding tutorial for the layman. I will give a (very) brief survey of erasure coding, and will then concentrate on the more interesting case of rateless codes. I will present one of the first (if not THE first) works in this field, LT codes, by Michael Luby. As I am not an expert on this subject, I'll not present the finer details and proofs, but the general idea (and the more interesting points).