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Raptor FEC Schemes for FECFRAME
draft-watson-fecframe-raptor-00

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Mark Watson
Last updated 2008-07-07
Replaced by RFC 6681
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Abstract

This document describes Fully-Specified Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes for the Raptor code and its application to reliable delivery of media streams in the context of FEC Framework. The Raptor code is a systematic code, where a number of repair symbols are generated from a set of source symbols and sent in one or more repair flows in addition to the source symbols that are sent to the receiver(s) within a source flow. The Raptor code offers a close to optimal protection against arbitrary packet losses at a low computational complexity. Two FEC Schemes are defined, one for protection of arbitrary packet flows and another for protection of a single flow that already contains a sequence number. Repair data may be sent over arbitrary datagram transport (e.g. UDP) or using RTP. An RTP Payload Type is defined for this latter case.

Authors

Mark Watson

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