Optimal Streaming Erasure Codes Over the Three-Node Relay Network

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information theory Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 2696 - 2712
• Main Authors: Fong, Silas L., Khisti, Ashish, Li, Baochun, Tan, Wai-Tian, Zhu, Xiaoqing, Apostolopoulos, John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Data centers; Delays; Encoding; Forward error correction; maximum achievable rate; message-wise decode-forward; Messages; packet erasures; Relay; Relay networks (telecommunications); Service introduction; streaming; Streaming media; symbol-wise decode-forward; Symbols; three-node relay network

This paper investigates low-latency streaming codes for a three-node relay network. The source transmits a sequence of messages (streaming messages) to the destination through the relay between them, where the first-hop channel from the source to the relay and the second-hop channel from the relay t...