Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels

Citation:   Palanki, R.; Yedidia, J.S., "Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels", Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2004 (CISS 2004)
MERL Report:  TR2004-037

We study the performance of the newly invented rateless codes (LT- and Raptor codes) on noisy channels such as the BSC and the AWGN channel. We find that Raptor codes outperform LT codes, and have good performance on a wide variety of noisy channels.

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