A Little Fancy Math Could Make Mobile Networks Five Times Faster

LTE might be fast, but it sure ain’t fast enough. Enter new research from MIT and Caltech, which suggests that a little fancy math could boost mobile data transmission rates—by as much as 400 percent.

Network World reports that the collaboration has given rise to a new data transmission method which used something called Random Linear Network Coding. Unlike usual transmission techniques, RLNC—as its best buddies call it—encodes each packet of data being sent using information from the previously sent packages, and a few randomly generated coefficient thrown in for good luck, using some linear algebra.

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