This paper proposes a fountain coding system which has lower space decoding
complexity and lower decoding erasure rate than the Raptor coding systems. The
main idea of the proposed fountain code is employing shift and exclusive OR to
generate the output packets. This technique is known as the zigzag decodable
code, which is efficiently decoded by the zigzag decoder. In other words, we
propose a fountain code based on the zigzag decodable code in this paper.
Moreover, we analyze the overhead for the received packets, decoding erasure
rate, decoding complexity, and asymptotic overhead of the proposed fountain
code. As the result, we show that the proposed fountain code outperforms the
Raptor codes in terms of the overhead and decoding erasure rate. Simulation
results show that the proposed fountain coding system outperforms Raptor coding
system in terms of the overhead and the space decoding complexity.Comment: 11 pages, 15 figures, submitted to IEICETransactions, Oct. 201