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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2004
Supratim Deb, Cambridge, MA (US);
Muriel Medard, Cambridge, MA (US);
Supratim Deb, Cambridge, MA (US);
Muriel Medard, Cambridge, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing rapid information dissemination using network coding is presented. A coded message including a payload and a code vector, is transmitted from a first node of the network to a second node of the network. The information thus stored can also be retrieved by collecting code vectors from at least one node and viewing the collected code vectors as a matrix. A determination is made regarding whether a dimension of the matrix is equal to a predefined number. When the dimension of the matrix equals the predefined number, the information is retrieved using the collection of code vectors in the matrix.