Simple Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) Scheme for FECFRAME
RFC 6865
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) V. Roca
Request for Comments: 6865 INRIA
Category: Standards Track M. Cunche
ISSN: 2070-1721 INSA-Lyon/INRIA
J. Lacan
ISAE, Univ. of Toulouse
A. Bouabdallah
CDTA
K. Matsuzono
Keio University
February 2013
Simple Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) Scheme for FECFRAME
Abstract
This document describes a fully-specified simple Forward Error
Correction (FEC) scheme for Reed-Solomon codes over the finite field
(also known as the Galois Field) GF(2^^m), with 2 <= m <= 16, that
can be used to protect arbitrary media streams along the lines
defined by FECFRAME. The Reed-Solomon codes considered have
attractive properties, since they offer optimal protection against
packet erasures and the source symbols are part of the encoding
symbols, which can greatly simplify decoding. However, 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 the Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, for instance.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Definitions Notations and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Common Procedures Related to the ADU Block and Source
Block Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. ADU Block Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3. Source Block Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Simple Reed-Solomon FEC Scheme over GF(2^^m) for Arbitrary
ADU Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.1. Formats and Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.1.1. FEC Framework Configuration Information . . . . . . . 12
5.1.2. Explicit Source FEC Payload ID . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.1.3. Repair FEC Payload ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2. Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.3. FEC Code Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1. Attacks Against the Data Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1.1. Access to Confidential Content . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1.2. Content Corruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.2. Attacks Against the FEC Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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