A soliton distribution is a type of discrete probability distribution that arises in the theory of erasure correcting codes, which use information redundancy to compensate for transmission errors manifesting as missing (erased) data. A paper by Luby[1] introduced two forms of such distributions, the ideal soliton distribution and the robust soliton distribution.
- ^ Luby, M. (2002). LT Codes. The 43rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. doi:10.1109/SFCS.2002.1181950.