Technical Summary
This document describes a fully-specified simple FEC scheme for Reed-
Solomon codes over GF(2^^m), with 2 <= m <= 16, that can be used to
protect arbitrary media streams along the lines defined by the
FECFRAME framework. Reed-Solomon codes belong to the class of
Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes which means they offer optimal
protection against packet erasures. They are also systematic codes,
which means that the source symbols are part of the encoding symbols.
The price to pay is a limit on the maximum source block size, on the
maximum number of encoding symbols, and a computational complexity
higher than that of LDPC codes for instance.
Working Group Summary
There is consensus within the FECFrame WG to publish this document.
The document has been actively discussed on the wg list and in wg
meetings. There was no controversy with the progression of this
document.
Document Quality
There are no implementations of this.
The draft has received adequate review from key WG members.
Personnel
Greg Shepherd (gjshep@gmail.com) is the document shepherd and Martin Stiemerling (martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu) is the responsible Area Director.