Spectrum‐sharing broadcast channels using fountain codes: energy, delay and throughput

CPRSD for LT codes

“…As the first realisation of digital fountain codes, LT codes proposed by Luby in 2002 [1] have been widely applied in broadcast communication [1–3], data distribution [4], cognitive radio network [5], wireless sensor networks [6], and cloud storage [7, 8]. Degree distribution is critical to the encoding and decoding process of LT codes.…”