Temporally enhanced erasure codes for reliable communication protocols

摘要

In forward error correction (FEC), redundant encoded packets are transmitted to and decoded by receiver (s) so that up to a certain number of lost packets can be recovered by using those redundant packets. The data stream is divided into blocks, and encoded packets are generated within each block. Hence, the encoding and decoding are performed on block-by-block basis. In this paper, a new mechanism named as temporally enhanced FEC (TEFEC) is proposed as an enhancement to the Existing block-based FEC codes such as erasure codes.