erasure code

English

Noun

erasure code (plural erasure codes)

(information theory) A forward-error-correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols.

Hyponyms

fountain code

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