Internet Engineering Task Force                                   RMT WG
INTERNET-DRAFT                                                   M. Luby
draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-supp-compact-01.txt               Digital Fountain
                                                             L. Vicisano
                                                                   Cisco
                                                             12 May 2003
                                                  Expires: November 2003


             Compact Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes



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Abstract


This document introduces some Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes
that supplement the FEC schemes described in RFC 3452 [6]. The primary
benefits of these additional FEC schemes are that they are designed for
reliable bulk delivery of large objects using a more compact FEC Payload
ID, and they can be used to sequentially deliver blocks of an object of
indeterminate length. Thus, they more flexibly support different



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delivery models with less packet header overhead.

This document also describes the Fully-Specified FEC scheme
corresponding to FEC Encoding ID 0. This Fully-Specified FEC scheme
requires no FEC coding and is introduced primarily to allow simple
interoperability testing between different implementations of protocol
instantiations that use the FEC building block.












































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                           Table of Contents


1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
2. Packet Header Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
 2.1. FEC Payload ID for FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130. . . . . . . . .   5
 2.2. Compact No-Code FEC scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
 2.3. Compact FEC scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
3. Compact No-Code FEC scheme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
 3.1. Source Block Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
 3.2. Sending and Receiving a Source Block . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
4. Usage Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
 4.1. Reliable Bulk Data Delivery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
 4.2. Block-Stream Delivery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
7. References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
8. Authors' Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
9. Full Copyright Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
































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1.  Introduction

This document describes two new Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes
corresponding to FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130 which supplement the FEC
schemes corresponding to FEC Encoding IDs 128 and 129 described in the
FEC Building Block [6].

The new FEC schemes are particularly applicable when an object is
partitioned into equal-length source blocks.  In this case, the source
block length common to all source blocks can be communicated out-of-
band, thus saving the additional overhead of carrying the source block
length within the FEC Payload ID of each packet.  The new FEC schemes
are similar to the FEC schemes with FEC Encoding ID 128 defined in RFC
3452 [6], except that the FEC Payload ID is half as long.  This is the
reason that these new FEC schemes are called Compact FEC schemes.

The primary focus of FEC Encoding IDs 128 and 129 is to reliably deliver
bulk objects of known length.  The FEC schemes described in this
document are designed to be used for both reliable delivery of bulk
objects of known length, and for the delivery of a stream of source
blocks for an object of indeterminate length.  Within the block-stream
delivery model, reliability guarantees can range from acknowledged
reliable delivery of each block to unacknowledged enhanced-reliability
delivery of time-sensitive blocks, depending on the properties of the
protocol instantiation in which the FEC scheme is used.  Acknowledged
reliable block-stream delivery is similar in spirit to the byte-stream
delivery that TCP offers, except that the unit of delivery is a block of
data instead of a byte of data.  In the spirit of a building block (see
RFC 3048 [9]), the FEC schemes described in this document can be used to
provide reliability for other service models as well.

The two new FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130 are described in Section 2, and
this supplements Section 5 of the FEC building block [6]. Section 3 of
this document describes the Fully-Specified FEC scheme corresponding to
the FEC Encoding ID 0.  This Fully-Specified FEC scheme requires no FEC
coding and is specified primarily to allow simple interoperability
testing between different implementations of protocol instantiations
that use the FEC building block.

This document inherits the context, language, declarations and
restrictions of the FEC building block [6]. This document also uses the
terminology of the companion document [7] which describes the use of FEC
codes within the context of reliable IP multicast transport and provides
an introduction to some commonly used FEC codes.

Building blocks are defined in RFC 3048 [9]. This document is a product
of the IETF RMT WG and follows the general guidelines provided in RFC
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2].


2.  Packet Header Fields

This section specifies FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130 and the associated FEC
Payload ID formats and the specific information in the corresponding FEC
Object Transmission Information.  The FEC scheme associated with FEC
Encoding ID 0 is Fully-Specified whereas the FEC schemes associated with
FEC Encoding ID 130 are Under-Specified.

FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130 have the same FEC Payload ID format, which is
described in the following subsection.  The FEC Object Transmission
Information for FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130 is different, and is
described in the subsequent two subsections.


2.1.  FEC Payload ID for FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130

The FEC Payload ID for FEC Encoding IDs 0 and 130 is composed of a
Source Block Number and an Encoding Symbol ID structured as follows:


  0                   1                   2                   3
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 |     Source Block Number       |      Encoding Symbol ID       |
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+



The 16-bit Source Block Number is used to identify from which source
block of the object the encoding symbol in the payload of the packet is
generated.  There are two possible modes: In the unique SBN mode each
source block within the object has a unique Source Block Number
associated with it, and in the non-unique SBN mode the same Source Block
Number may be used for more than one source block within the object.
Which mode is being used for an object is outside the scope of this
document and MUST be communicated, either explicitly or implicitly, out-
of-band to receivers.

If the unique SBN mode is used then successive Source Block Numbers are
associated with consecutive source blocks of the object starting with
Source Block Number 0 for the first source block of the object.  In this
case, there are at most 2^16 source blocks in the object.




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If the non-unique SBN mode is used then the mapping from source blocks
to Source Block Numbers MUST be communicated out-of-band to receivers,
and how this is done is outside the scope of this document.  This
mapping could be implicit, for example determined by the transmission
order of the source blocks.   In non-unique SBN mode, packets for two
different source blocks mapped to the same Source Block Number SHOULD
NOT be sent within an interval of time that is shorter than the
transport time of a source block.  The transport time of a source block
includes the amount of time the source block is processed at the
transport layer by the sender, the network transit time for packets, and
the amount of time the source block is processed at the transport layer
by a receiver.  This is so that the receiver can clearly decide which
packets belong to which source block.

The 16-bit Encoding Symbol ID identifies which specific encoding symbol
generated from the source block is carried in the packet payload.  The
exact details of the correspondence between Encoding Symbol IDs and the
encoding symbols in the packet payload for FEC Encoding ID 0 are
specified in Section 3. The exact details of the correspondence between
Encoding Symbol IDs and the encoding symbol(s) in the packet payload for
FEC Encoding ID 130 are dependent on the particular encoding algorithm
used as identified by the FEC Encoding ID and by the FEC Instance ID.


2.2.  Compact No-Code FEC scheme

This subsection reserves FEC Encoding ID 0 for the Compact No-Code FEC
scheme that is described in this subsection and in Section 3. This is a
Fully-Specified FEC scheme that is primarily intended to be used for
simple interoperability testing between different implementations of
protocol instantiations that use the FEC building block.  The value of
this FEC scheme is that no FEC encoding or decoding is required to
implement it and therefore it is easy to test interoperability between
protocols that may use different proprietary FEC schemes in production
in their first implementations.

The FEC Payload ID format for FEC Encoding ID 0 is described in
Subsection 2.1.  The FEC Object Transmission Information has the
following specific information:


  o The FEC Encoding ID 0.

  o For each source block of the object, the length in bytes of the
    encoding symbol carried in the packet payload.  This length MUST be
    the same for all packets sent for the same source block, but MAY be
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  o For each source block of the object, the length of the source block
    in bytes.  Typically, each source block for the object has the same
    length and thus only one length common to all source blocks need be
    communicated, but this is not a requirement.  For convenience, the
    source block length MAY be a multiple of the length of the encoding
    symbol carried in one packet payload.


How this out-of-band information is communicated is outside the scope of
this document.

Other information, such as the object length and the number of source
blocks of the object for an object of known length may be needed by a
receiver to support some delivery models such as reliable bulk data
delivery.



2.3.  Compact FEC scheme

This subsection reserves FEC Encoding ID 130 for the Compact FEC scheme
that is described in this subsection.  This is an Under-Specified FEC
scheme.  This FEC scheme is similar in spirit to the Compact No-Code FEC
scheme, except that a non-trivial FEC encoding (that is Under-Specified)
may be used to generate encoding symbol(s) placed in the payload of each
packet and a corresponding FEC decoder may be used to produce the source
block from received packets.

The FEC Payload ID format for FEC Encoding ID 0 is described in
Subsection 2.1.  The FEC Object Transmission Information has the
following specific information:


  o The FEC Encoding ID 130.

  o The FEC Instance ID associated with the FEC Encoding ID 130 to be
    used.

  o For each source block of the object, the aggregate length of the
    encoding symbol(s) carried in one packet payload.  This length MUST
    be the same for all packets sent for the same source block, but MAY
    be different for different source blocks in the same object.

  o For each source block of the object, the length of the source block
    in bytes.  Typically, each source block for the object has the same
    length and thus only one length common to all source blocks need be
    communicated, but this is not a requirement.  For convenience, the
    source block length MAY be a multiple of the aggregate length of the



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    encoding symbol(s) carried in one packet payload.


How this out-of-band information is communicated is outside the scope of
this document.

Other information, such as the object length and the number of source
blocks of the object for an object of known length may be needed by a
receiver to support some delivery models such as reliable bulk data
delivery.



3.  Compact No-Code FEC scheme


In this section we describe a Fully-Specified FEC scheme corresponding
to FEC Encoding ID 0.  The primary purpose for introducing this FEC
schemes is to allow simple interoperability testing between different
implementations of the same protocol instantiation that uses the FEC
building block.

The Compact No-Code FEC scheme does not require FEC encoding or
decoding.  Instead, each encoding symbol consists of consecutive bytes
of a source block of the object.  The FEC Payload ID consists of two
fields, the 16-bit Source Block Number and the 16-bit Encoding Symbol
ID, as described in Subsection 2.1. The relative lengths of these fields
were chosen for their similarity with the corresponding fields of the
FEC Payload ID associated with FEC Encoding ID 130, and because of this
testing interoperability of the FEC scheme associated with FEC Encoding
ID 0 provides a first basic step to testing interoperability of an FEC
scheme associated with FEC Encoding ID 130.

The mapping between source blocks of an object and Source Block Numbers
is as described in Subsection 2.1. The next two subsections describe the
details of how the Compact No-Code FEC scheme operates for each source
block of an object. These subsections are not meant to suggest a
particular implementation, but just to illustrate the general algorithm
through the description of a simple, non-optimized implementation.



3.1.  Source Block Logistics


Let X > 0 be the length of a source block in bytes.  The value of X is
part of the FEC Object Transmission Information, and how this
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document.

Let L > 0 be the length of the encoding symbol contained in the payload
of each packet.  There are several possible ways the length of the
encoding symbol L can be communicated to the receiver, and how this is
done is outside the scope of this document.  As an example, a sender
could fix the packet payload length to be L in order to place the
encoding symbol of length L into the packet, and then a receiver could
infer the value of L from the length of the received packet payload.  It
is REQUIRED that L be the same for all packets sent for the same source
block but MAY be different for different source blocks within the same
object.

For a given source block X bytes in length with Source Block Number I,
let N = X/L rounded up to the nearest integer.  The encoding symbol
carried in the payload of a packet consists of a consecutive portion of
the source block.  The source block is logically partitioned into N
encoding symbols, each L bytes in length, and the corresponding Encoding
Symbol IDs range from 0 through N-1 starting at the beginning of the
source block and proceeding to the end.  Thus, the encoding symbol with
Encoding Symbol ID Y consists of bytes L*Y through L*(Y+1)-1 of the
source block, where the bytes of the source block are numbered from 0
through X-1.  If X/L is not integral then the last encoding symbol with
Encoding Symbol ID = N-1 consists of bytes L*(N-1) through the last byte
X-1 of the source block, and the remaining L*N - X bytes of the encoding
symbol can by padded out with zeroes.

As an example, suppose that the source block length X = 20,400 and
encoding symbol length L = 1,000.  The encoding symbol with Encoding
Symbol ID = 10 contains bytes 10,000 through 10,999 of the source block,
and the encoding symbol with Encoding Symbol ID = 20 contains bytes
20,000 through the last byte 20,399 of the source block and the
remaining 600 bytes of the encoding symbol can be padded with zeroes.

There are no restrictions beyond the rules stated above on how a sender
generates encoding symbols to send from a source block.  However, it is
recommended that an implementor of refer to the companion document [7]
for general advice.

In the next subsection a procedure is recommended for sending and
receiving source blocks.



3.2.  Sending and Receiving a Source Block


The following carousel procedure is RECOMMENDED for a sender to generate



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packets containing FEC Payload IDs and corresponding encoding symbols
for a source block with Source Block Number I.  Set the length in bytes
of an encoding symbol to a fixed value L which is reasonable for a
packet payload (e.g., ensure that the total packet size does not exceed
the MTU) and that is smaller than the source block length X, e.g., L =
1,000 for X >= 1,000.  Initialize Y to a value randomly chosen in the
interval [0..N-1].  Repeat the following for each packet of the source
block to be sent.

  o If Y < N-1 then generate the encoding symbol consisting of the L
    bytes of the source block numbered L*Y through L*(Y+1)-1.

  o If Y = N-1 then generate the encoding symbol consisting of the last
    X - L*(N-1) bytes of the source block numbered L*(N-1) through X-1
    followed by L*N - X padding bytes of zeroes.

  o Set the Source Block Length to X, set the Source Block Number = I,
    set the Encoding Symbol ID = Y, place the FEC Payload ID and the
    encoding symbol into the packet to send.

  o In preparation for the generation of the next packet: if Y < N-1
    then increment Y by one elseif Y = N-1 then reset Y to zero.


The following procedure is RECOMMENDED for a receiver to recover the
source block based on receiving packets for the source block from a
sender that is using the carousel procedure describe above.  The
receiver can determine from which source block a received packet was
generated by the Source Block Number carried in the FEC Payload ID.
Upon receipt of the first FEC Payload ID for a source block, the
receiver uses the source block length received out-of-band as part of
the FEC Object Transmission Information to determine the length X in
bytes of the source block, and allocates space for the X bytes that the
source block requires.  The receiver also computes the length L of the
encoding symbol(s) in the payload of the packet by subtracting the
packet header length from the total length of the received packet (and
the receiver checks that this length is the same in each subsequent
received packet from the same source block).  After calculating N = X/L
rounded up to the nearest integer, the receiver allocates a boolean
array RECEIVED[0..N-1] with all N entries initialized to false to track
received encoding symbols.  The receiver keeps receiving packets for the
source block as long as there is at least one entry in RECEIVED still
set to false or until the application decides to give up on this source
block and move on to other source blocks.  For each received packet for
the source block (including the first packet) the steps to be taken to
help recover the source block are as follows.  Let Y be the value of the
Encoding Symbol ID within FEC Payload ID of the packet.  If Y < N-1 then
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numbered L*Y through L*(Y+1)-1 of the space reserved for the source
block. If Y = N-1 then the receiver copies the first X - L*(N-1) bytes
of the encoding symbol into bytes numbered L*(N-1) through X-1 of the
space reserved for the source block.  In either case, the receiver sets
RECEIVED[Y] = true.  At each point in time, the receiver has
successfully recovered bytes L*Y through L*(Y+1)-1 of the source block
for all Y in the interval [0..N-1] for which RECEIVED[Y] is true.  If
all all N entries of RECEIVED are true then the receiver has recovered
the entire source block.



4.  Usage Examples


The following subsections outline some usage examples for FEC Encoding
IDs 0 and 130.



4.1.  Reliable Bulk Data Delivery


One possible delivery model that can be supported using any FEC scheme
described in this document is reliable bulk data delivery.  In this
model, one or more potentially large objects are to be reliably
delivered to potentially multiple receivers using multicast.  For this
delivery model the unique SBN mode is often used.  Using this mode the
maximum length of an object that can be delivered is at most the number
of possible source blocks times the maximum length of a source block.
If the aggregate length of encoding symbols carried in a packet payload
is L bytes then the maximum length of a source block is the number of
distinct Encoding Symbol IDs times L, or 2^16 * L for FEC Encoding IDs 0
and 130.  If for example L = 1 KB then the length of a source block can
be up to around 65 MB.   However, in practice the length of the source
block is usually shorter than the number of distinct Encoding Symbol IDs
times L, and thus generally the length of a source block is a fraction
of 65 MB.  Since the number of distinct Source Block Numbers is 2^16,
for this example an object can be more than a terabyte.

The non-unique SBN mode of delivery can also be effectively used for
reliably delivering large object.  In this case, the length of the
object delivered could be arbitrarily large, depending on the out-of-
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4.2.  Block-Stream Delivery

Another possible delivery model that can be supported using FEC Encoding
ID 0 or 130 is block-stream delivery of an object.  In this model, the
source blocks of a potentially indeterminate length object are to be
reliably delivered in sequence to one or multiple receivers.  Thus, the
object could be partitioned into source blocks on-the-fly at the sender
as the data arrives, and all packets generated for one source block are
sent before any packets are sent for the subsequent source block.  In
this example, all source blocks could be of the same length and this
length could be communicated out-of-band to a receiver before the
receiver joins the session.  For this delivery model it is not required
that the Source Block Numbers for all source blocks are unique.
However, a suggested usage is to use all 2^16 Source Block Numbers for
consecutive source blocks of the object, and thus the time between reuse
of a Source Block Number is the time it takes to send the packets for
2^16 source blocks.

This delivery model can be used to reliably deliver an object to one or
multiple receivers, using either an ACK or NACK based acknowledgement
based scheme for each source block.  As another example the sender could
send a fixed number of packets for each source block without any
acknowledgements from receivers, for example in a live streaming without
feedback application.



5.  Security Considerations

The security considerations for this document are the same as they are
for RFC 3452 [6].


6.  IANA Considerations

Values of FEC Encoding IDs and FEC Instance IDs are subject to IANA
registration. For general guidelines on IANA considerations as they
apply to this document, see RFC 3452 [6].  This document assigns the
Fully-Specified FEC Encoding ID 0 under the ietf:rmt:fec:encoding name-
space to "Compact No-Code".  The FEC Payload ID format and corresponding
FEC Object Transmission Information associated with FEC Encoding ID 0 is
described in Subsections 2.1 and 2.2, and the corresponding FEC scheme
is described in Section 3.

This document assigns the Under-Specified FEC Encoding ID 130 under the
ietf:rmt:fec:encoding name-space to "Compact FEC".  This document also
establishes a new "FEC Instance ID" registry




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    ietf:rmt:fec:encoding:instance:130

    ietf:rmt:fec:encoding = 130 (Compact FEC)

The FEC Payload ID format and corresponding FEC Object Transmission
Information associated with FEC Encoding ID 130 is described in
Subsections 2.1 and 2.3.


7.  References


[1] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", RFC
2026, October 1996.

[2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997.

[3] Kermode, R., Vicisano, L., ``Author Guidelines for Reliable
Multicast Transport (RMT) Building Blocks and Protocol Instantiation
documents'', RFC 3269, April 2002.

[4] Luby, M., Gemmell, J., Vicisano, L., Rizzo, L. and J.  Crowcroft,
"Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) Protocol Instantiation", RFC 3450
December 2002.

[5] Luby, M., Gemmell, J., Vicisano, L., Rizzo, L., Handley, M. and J.
Crowcroft, "Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block", RFC 3451
December 2002.

[6] Luby, M., Vicisano, L., Gemmell, J., Rizzo, L., Handley, M. and J.
Crowcroft, "Forward Error Correction (FEC) Building Block", RFC 3452,
December 2002.

[7] Luby, M., Vicisano, L., Gemmell, J., Rizzo, L., Handley, M. and J.
Crowcroft, "The Use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) in Reliable
Multicast", RFC 3453, December 2002.

[8] Mankin, A., Romanow, A., Bradner, S., Paxson V., "IETF Criteria for
Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols", RFC
2357, June 1998.

[9] Whetten, B., Vicisano, L., Kermode, R., Handley, M., Floyd, S.,
Luby, M., "Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many
Bulk-Data Transfer", RFC 3048, January 2001.






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8.  Authors' Addresses

   Michael Luby
   luby@digitalfountain.com
   Digital Fountain, Inc.
   39141 Civic Center Drive
   Suite 300
   Fremont, CA  94538

   Lorenzo Vicisano
   lorenzo@cisco.com
   cisco Systems, Inc.
   170 West Tasman Dr.,
   San Jose, CA, USA, 95134





































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