Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to group two or more small packets that are to be communicated to a common destination, where the two or more packets are grouped together in a queue dedicated to temporarily store small packets that are to be communicated to the common destination, coalesce the small packets into a coalesced packet, where the coalesced packet is a network packet, and communicate the coalesced packet to the common destination. In an example, the size of a small packet is a packet that is smaller than the network packet. In another example, the size of a small packet is less than half the size of the network packet.

Abstract: An example method to decode an error-correcting code includes receiving a tuple including a seed and a coded packet over a communication channel, and based on the seed, reconstructing a set of pseudorandom coefficients used by an encoder to create the coded packet. The method also includes entering the set of pseudorandom coefficients and the coded packet in a decoding matrix and reducing the decoding matrix to a row echelon form. After reducing the decoding matrix to a row echelon form, the method further includes determining if the decoding matrix is decodable up to a number of rows, reducing the decoding matrix up to the number of rows by backward substitution so a part of the first matrix becomes an identity matrix and a corresponding part of the second matrix comprise source packets, and extracting the source packets from the padded packets.

Abstract: An example method to decode an error-correcting code includes receiving a tuple including a seed and a coded packet over a communication channel, and based on the seed, reconstructing a set of pseudorandom coefficients used by an encoder to create the coded packet. The method also includes entering the set of pseudorandom coefficients and the coded packet in a decoding matrix and reducing the decoding matrix to a row echelon form. After reducing the decoding matrix to a row echelon form, the method further includes determining if the decoding matrix is decodable up to a number of rows, reducing the decoding matrix up to the number of rows by backward substitution so a part of the first matrix becomes an identity matrix and a corresponding part of the second matrix comprise source packets, and extracting the source packets from the padded packets.

Abstract: A method is provided to transmit an error-correcting code. The method includes receiving a source packet, advancing a sliding encoder window after receiving the source packet, and generating coded packets by, when the padded packet is encoded for a first time, encoding the source packet alone, and, when the source packet is encoded for a number of times after the first time, encoding the source packet with older source packets in the sliding window.

Abstract: A method is provided to transmit an error-correcting code. The method includes receiving a source packet, advancing a sliding encoder window after receiving the source packet, and generating coded packets by, when the padded packet is encoded for a first time, encoding the source packet alone, and, when the source packet is encoded for a number of times after the first time, encoding the source packet with older source packets in the sliding window.