The Need for Extended Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) schemes: Problem Position

Vincent Roca (1) , Aline Roumy (2) , Bessem Sayadi (3)

1 PLANETE - Protocols and applications for the Internet
2 Sirocco - Analysis representation, compression and communication of visual data
3 Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs

This document discusses the limits of [RFC5052]-compliant traditional FEC schemes, and in particular for two use-cases that are not efficiently addressed, namely Unequal Erasure Protection (UEP) of subsets of an object and file bundle protection. This document defines the problem but not the potential solutions. This is left to companion documents.

Domaines: Théorie de l'information [cs.IT]; Théorie de l'information et codage [math.IT]

Vincent Roca, Aline Roumy, Bessem Sayadi. The Need for Extended Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) schemes: Problem Position. [Technical Report] 2012. ⟨hal-00752510⟩