RFC 5445: Basic Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes
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This document provides Forward Error Correction (FEC) Scheme specifications according to the Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) FEC building block for the Compact No-Code FEC Scheme, the Small Block, Large Block, and Expandable FEC Scheme, the Small Block Systematic FEC Scheme, and the Compact FEC Scheme. This document obsoletes RFC 3695 and assumes responsibility for the FEC Schemes defined in RFC 3452. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC5445
- Published
- March 2009
- Authors
- M. Watson
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- tsv
- Pages
- 19
- Also known as
- —
Topics
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 4 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 3452 (2002)
- RFC 3695 (2004)
- RFC 5052 (2007)
- RFC 5445 (2009)
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