Analysis on LT codes for unequal recovery time with complete and partial feedback
Rana Abbas, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Yonghui Li, Branka S. Vucetic · 2016
In this paper, we investigate the impact of feedback in LT codes to guarantee unequal recovery time (URT) for different message segments. We analyze the URT-LT codes using the AND-OR tree for two scenarios: complete and partial feedback. We derive the necessary conditions for these two feedback schemes to achieve the required recovery time. We validate the analysis by simulation and highlight the cases where feedback is advantageous.