Appearing in DSN-2004: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Florence, Italy, June, 2004.
If the material in this paper interests you, please also read the expanded version of the paper: Technical Report UT-CS-03-510, University of Tennessee, September, 2003.
This paper attempts to illuminate the practical considerations of LDPC codes for peer-to-peer and distributed storage systems. We employ simulation to generate a huge variety of individual codes, and then analyze their behavior in order to address several important heretofore unanswered questions about employing LDPC codes in real-world systems.
.inproceedings pt:04:ldpc author J. S. Plank and M. G. Thomason title A Practical Analysis of Low-Density Parity-Check Erasure Codes for Wide-Area Storage Applications booktitle DSN-2004: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks publisher IEEE month June year 2004 where http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/DSN-2004.html
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