{"id":4238,"date":"2012-05-17T00:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2012-08-06T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T20:49:35","slug":"the-elusive-capacity-of-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4238","title":{"rendered":"The elusive capacity of networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What makes that question particularly hard to answer is that no one knows how to calculate the data capacity of a network as a whole \u2014 or even whether it can be calculated. Nonetheless, in the first half of a two-part paper, which was published recently in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, MIT&#8217;s Muriel M\u00e9dard, California Institute of Technology&#8217;s Michelle Effros and the late Ralf Koetter of the University of Technology in Munich show that in a wired network, network coding and error-correcting coding can be handled separately, without reduction in the network&#8217;s capacity. In the forthcoming second half of the paper, the same researchers demonstrate some bounds on the capacities of wireless networks, which could help guide future research in both industry and academia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/search-for-perfect-code-0515.html\">The elusive capacity of networks &#8211; MIT News Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes that question particularly hard to answer is that no one knows how to calculate the data capacity of a network as a whole \u2014 or even whether it can be calculated. Nonetheless, in the first half of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4238\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[629,180,387],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-information-theory","tag-math","tag-mit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}