Fountain codes have demonstrated great results for the binary erasure channel and have already been incorporated into several international standards to recover lost packets at the application layer. These include multimedia broadcast/multicast sessions and digital video broadcasting on global internet-protocol. The rateless property of Fountain codes holds great promise for noisy channels. The...

Fountain codes are record-breaking sparse-graph codes for channels with erasures – such as the internet, where files are transmitted in multiple small packets, each of which is either received without error or not received. Standard file-transfer protocols simply chop a file up into K packet-sized pieces, then repeatedly transmit each packet until it is successfully received. A back-channel is ...

The following statement on the plan to use Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, for children who are mentally handicapped as well as those suffering from physical illness, has been sent to us for publication. We are glad to give it publicity and to assure members of the Hospital Management Committee that the N.A.M.H. will watch future developments with deep interest.?Ed. The Minister of H...

Fountain House has passed through various developmental stages. It has adopted the ideology of a club-house from Fountain House, New York, along with a number of innovative programmes for the rehabilitation of the mentally ill. Through a process of constant experimentation and evaluation, it has evolved a programme and an ideological framework which is in keeping with the religious and cultural...

The behaviour of a turbulent, axisymmetric, Boussinesq, vertical fountain that impinges on a horizontal plate a distance H from the fountain source is investigated. Images from Light Induced Fluorescence visualisation of the flow provide a clear picture of the internal structure of the impinging flow. The interaction between the impinging fountain and the plate results in a buoyant radial wall ...

A cesium fountain clock is operated utilizing a microwave oscillator that derives its frequency stability from a stable laser by means of a fiber-laser femtosecond frequency comb. This oscillator is based on the technology developed for optical clocks and replaces the quartz-based microwave oscillator commonly used in fountain clocks. As a result, a significant decrease in the frequency instabi...

A Digital Fountain is an approach used to provide reliability in multicast networks without the use of receiver initiated packet retransmissions. Prior work to Digital Fountain has shown that use of receiver initiated retransmissions to recover lost data is unscalable in multicast networks and the impact is significant in lossy networks. Instead, like many other techniques that transmit redunda...

NIST is currently investigating the design of a second-generation cesium-fountain primary frequency standard. The design goals of this standard include an ultimate frequency inaccuracy of δf/f < 10 and achievable stability better than σy(τ) < 10/τ. This standard is expected to eventually replace NIST-F1, the current U.S. primary frequency standard [1]. In the context of reaching frequency uncer...