RTP Payload Format for Flexible Forward Error Correction (FEC)
draft-ietf-payload-flexible-fec-scheme-08

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PAYLOAD                                                        M. Zanaty
Internet-Draft                                                     Cisco
Intended status: Standards Track                                V. Singh
Expires: January 17, 2019                                   callstats.io
                                                                A. Begen
                                                         Networked Media
                                                              G. Mandyam
                                              Qualcomm Innovation Center
                                                           July 16, 2018

     RTP Payload Format for Flexible Forward Error Correction (FEC)
               draft-ietf-payload-flexible-fec-scheme-08

Abstract

   This document defines new RTP payload formats for the Forward Error
   Correction (FEC) packets that are generated by the non-interleaved
   and interleaved parity codes from source media encapsulated in RTP.
   These parity codes are systematic codes, where a number of FEC repair
   packets are generated from a set of source packets from one or more
   source RTP streams.  These FEC repair packets are sent in a
   redundancy RTP stream separate from the source RTP stream(s) that
   carries the source packets.  RTP source packets that were lost in
   transmission can be reconstructed using the source and repair packets
   that were received.  The non-interleaved and interleaved parity codes
   which are defined in this specification offer a good protection
   against random and bursty packet losses, respectively, at a cost of
   decent complexity.  The RTP payload formats that are defined in this
   document address the scalability issues experienced with the earlier
   specifications including RFC 2733, RFC 5109 and SMPTE 2022-1, and
   offer several improvements.  Due to these changes, the new payload
   formats are not backward compatible with the earlier specifications,
   but endpoints that do not implement this specification can still work
   by simply ignoring the FEC repair packets.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.1.  Parity Codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
       1.1.1.  1-D Non-interleaved (Row) FEC Protection  . . . . . .   5
       1.1.2.  1-D Interleaved (Column) FEC Protection . . . . . . .   5
       1.1.3.  Use Cases for 1-D FEC Protection  . . . . . . . . . .   6
       1.1.4.  2-D (Row and Column) FEC Protection . . . . . . . . .   8
       1.1.5.  FEC Overhead Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   2.  Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   3.  Definitions and Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.1.  Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.2.  Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   4.  Packet Formats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     4.1.  Source Packets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     4.2.  FEC Repair Packets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       4.2.1.  RTP Header of FEC Repair Packets  . . . . . . . . . .  12
       4.2.2.  FEC Header of FEC Repair Packets  . . . . . . . . . .  13
   5.  Payload Format Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.1.  Media Type Registration - Parity Codes  . . . . . . . . .  18