id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ff365427r7t Srinath Puducheri Sundaravaradhan Distributed LT Codes 2008 .txt text/plain 211 7 53 This thesis describes techniques to decompose LT codes (a class of rateless erasure correcting codes) into distributed LT (DLT) codes. This enhanced performance is due primarily to the longer blocklengths that are made possible by the MLT approach; when the relay-to-sink link is the bottleneck, it is better to deliver one long MLT codeword to the sink than multiple shorter LT codewords. cache/ff365427r7t.txt txt/ff365427r7t.txt