Tenor: making coding practical from servers to smartphones

It has been theoretically shown that performing coding in networked systems, including Reed-Solomon codes, fountain codes, and random network coding, has a clear advantage with respect to simplifying the design of protocols. ese coding techniques can be deployed on a wide range of networked nodes, from servers in the "cloud" to smartphone devices. However, large-scale real-world deployment of systems using coding is still rare, mainly due to the computational complexity of coding algorithms. is is especially a concern on both extremes: in high-bandwidth servers where coding may not be able to saturate the uplink bandwidth, and in smartphone devices where hardware limitations prevail. In this paper, we present Tenor, a comprehensive toolkit to make coding practical across a wide range of networked nodes, from servers to smartphones. We strive to push the performance of our crossplatform coding toolkit to the limits allowed by o -the-shelf hardware. To show the practicality of...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: MM
• Authors: Hassan Shojania, Baochun Li
• Keywords: Ese Coding, MM 2010, Multimedia, Networked Nodes, Wide Range