@misc{rfc5510, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 5510, howpublished = {RFC 5510}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC5510}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5510}, author = {Vincent Roca and Jani Peltotalo and Jerome Lacan and Sami Peltotalo}, title = {{Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes}}, pagetotal = 28, year = 2009, month = apr, abstract = {This document describes a Fully-Specified Forward Error Correction (FEC) Scheme for the Reed-Solomon FEC codes over GF(2\textasciicircum{}\textasciicircum{}m), where m is in \{2..16\}, and its application to the reliable delivery of data objects on the packet erasure channel (i.e., a communication path where packets are either received without any corruption or discarded during transmission). This document also describes a Fully-Specified FEC Scheme for the special case of Reed-Solomon codes over GF(2\textasciicircum{}\textasciicircum{}8) when there is no encoding symbol group. Finally, in the context of the Under-Specified Small Block Systematic FEC Scheme (FEC Encoding ID 129), this document assigns an FEC Instance ID to the special case of Reed-Solomon codes over GF(2\textasciicircum{}\textasciicircum{}8). Reed-Solomon codes belong to the class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, i.e., they enable a receiver to recover the k source symbols from any set of k received symbols. The schemes described here are compatible with the implementation from Luigi Rizzo. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }