Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC)
This document describes a Fully-Specified FEC scheme for the Reed- Solomon forward error correction code and its application to the reliable delivery of data objects on the packet erasure channel. 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 implementation described here is compatible with the implementation from Luigi Rizzo.