Rateless-Coding-Assisted Multi-Packet Spreading over Mobile Networks
  A novel Rateless-coding-assisted Multi-Packet Relaying (RMPR) protocol is proposed for large-size data spreading in mobile wireless networks. With this lightweight and robust protocol, the packet redundancy is reduced by a factor of $\sqrt n$, while the spreading time is reduced at least by a factor of $\ln (n)$. Closed-form bounds and explicit non-asymptotic results are presented, which are further validated through simulations. Besides, the packet duplication phenomenon in the network setting is analyzed for the first time. 
Huazi Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Huaiyu Dai
cs.NI cs.IT math.IT