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| author | Yu, Qianru Yang, Tianji Meng, Jingfan Xu, Jun |
| author_facet | Yu, Qianru Yang, Tianji Meng, Jingfan Xu, Jun |
| contents | In this work, we solve a long-standing open problem in coding theory with broad applications in networking and systems: designing an erasure code that simultaneously satisfies three requirements: (1) high coding efficiency, (2) low coding complexity, and (3) being a streaming code (defined as one with low decoding latency). We propose METTLE (Multi-Edge Type with Touch-less Leading Edge), the first erasure code to meet all three requirements. Compared to "streaming RaptorQ" (RaptorQ configured with a small source block size to ensure a low decoding latency), METTLE is only slightly worse in coding efficiency, but 47.7 to 84.6 times faster to decode. |
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| spellingShingle | METTLE: Efficient Streaming Erasure Code with Peeling Decodability Yu, Qianru Yang, Tianji Meng, Jingfan Xu, Jun Information Theory In this work, we solve a long-standing open problem in coding theory with broad applications in networking and systems: designing an erasure code that simultaneously satisfies three requirements: (1) high coding efficiency, (2) low coding complexity, and (3) being a streaming code (defined as one with low decoding latency). We propose METTLE (Multi-Edge Type with Touch-less Leading Edge), the first erasure code to meet all three requirements. Compared to "streaming RaptorQ" (RaptorQ configured with a small source block size to ensure a low decoding latency), METTLE is only slightly worse in coding efficiency, but 47.7 to 84.6 times faster to decode. |
| title | METTLE: Efficient Streaming Erasure Code with Peeling Decodability |
| topic | Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10020 |