I-D Action:draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-rs-04.txt

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	Title           : Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes
	Author(s)       : J. Lacan, et al.
	Filename        : draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-rs-04.txt
	Pages           : 29
	Date            : 2007-10-10

This document describes a Fully-Specified Forward Error Correction
(FEC) Scheme for the Reed-Solomon FEC codes over GF(2^^m), with m in
{2..16}, and its application to the reliable delivery of data objects
on the packet erasure channel.

This document also describes a Fully-Specified FEC Scheme for the
special case of Reed-Solomon codes over GF(2^^8) when there is no
encoding symbol group.

Finally, in the context of the Under-Specified Small Block Systematic
FEC Scheme (FEC Encoding ID 129), this document assigns an FEC
Instance ID to the special case of Reed-Solomon codes over GF(2^^8).

Reed-Solomon codes belong to the class of Maximum Distance Separable
(MDS) codes, i.e., they enable a receiver to recover the k source
symbols from any set of k received symbols.  The schemes described
here are compatible with the implementation from Luigi Rizzo.

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