Has anyone thought about how fountain codes could be useful in a mesh network, especially if over a bad connection?
Fountain Codes
Started by Anonymous ·
Maybe? Fountain codes are erasure codes mainly applicable to broadcasting, i.e a one way data or file transmission. The main use case for rateless codes is when the transmitter is deaf. Links over Reticulum are bidirectional.
Reticulum already implements a part transfer mechanism for Resources where the receiver can request to repeat a missing chunk based on the hashmap if it's missing a part of the transfer with an adaptive window that already reacts to loss in a channel. Resource transfers are receiver-driven
I would recommend before you make suggestions to understand fully the existing Reticulum codebase.
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