Scale-free luby transform codes

This paper reports the characteristics and performance of a new type of Luby Transform codes, namely scale-free Luby Transform (SF-LT) codes. In the SF-LT codes, the degree of the encoded symbol follows a modified power-law distribution. Moreover, the complexity and decoding performance of SF-LT codes are compared with LT codes based on robust soliton degree distribution and LT codes based on suboptimal degree distribution. The results show that SF-LT codes outperform other LT codes in terms of the probability of successful decoding over an ideal channel and a binary erasure channel. Moreover, the encoding/decoding complexity for the SF-LT codes is superior.