fountain

A fountain codec.

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Tom Hawkins

Maintained by Tom Hawkins <[email protected]> RubenAstudillo

Fountain codes are forward error correction codes for erasure channels. They are able to recover lost packets without needing a backchannel. As a rateless code, transmitters generate packets at random, on the fly. Receivers then listen to as many packets as needed to reconstruct the message.