Network Coding for Large Scale
Content Distribution
IEEE Infocom 2005
Christos Gkantsidis
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
Email: gantsich@cc.gatech.edu
Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez
Microsoft Research
Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK
Email: pablo@microsoft.com
Abstract—We propose a new scheme for content distribution
of large files that is based on network coding. With network
coding, each node of the distribution network is able to generate
and transmit encoded blocks of information. The randomization
introduced by the coding process eases the scheduling of block
propagation, and, thus, makes the distribution more efficient.
This is particularly important in large unstructured overlay
networks, where the nodes need to make block forwarding
decisions based on local information only. We compare network
coding to other schemes that transmit unencoded information (i.e.
blocks of the original file) and, also, to schemes in which......

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