In the next issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Gregory Wornell, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, Uri Erez at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and Mitchell Trott at Google describe a new coding scheme that guarantees the fastest possible delivery of data over fluctuating wireless connections without requiring prior knowledge of noise levels.
This is brilliant, and immediately implementable in the real-world to produce higher-quality and more efficient transmissions despite noise levels over the channel, such as WiFi or cell frequencies.