Meanings
noungroupcast (plural groupcasts)
plural groupcasts
- The broadcast or display of digital content to a specific group.
We propose an achievable scheme based on random vector (packetized) caching placement and multiple groupcast index coding, shown to be order-optimal in the asymptotic regime in which the number of packets per file B goes to infinity.
2015, Mingyue Ji, Antonia Tulino, Jaime Llorca, Giuseppe Caire, “Caching-Aided Coded Multicasting with Multiple Random Requests”, in arXiv
Origin
From group + -cast, from broadcast.
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