{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptorq-06",
  "doc_id": "RFC6330",
  "title": "RaptorQ Forward Error Correction Scheme for Object Delivery",
  "authors": [
    "M. Luby",
    "A. Shokrollahi",
    "M. Watson",
    "T. Stockhammer",
    "L. Minder"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "69",
  "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "source": "Reliable Multicast Transport",
  "abstract": "This document describes a Fully-Specified Forward Error Correction (FEC) scheme, corresponding to FEC Encoding ID 6, for the RaptorQ FEC code and its application to reliable delivery of data objects.\n\n RaptorQ codes are a new family of codes that provide superior flexibility, support for larger source block sizes, and better coding efficiency than Raptor codes in RFC 5053. RaptorQ is also a fountain code, i.e., as many encoding symbols as needed can be generated on the fly by the encoder from the source symbols of a source block of data. The decoder is able to recover the source block from almost any set of encoding symbols of sufficient cardinality -- in most cases, a set of cardinality equal to the number of source symbols is sufficient; in rare cases, a set of cardinality slightly more than the number of source symbols is required.\n\n The RaptorQ code described here is a systematic code, meaning that all the source symbols are among the encoding symbols that can be generated. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "pub_date": "August 2011",
  "keywords": [
    "FEC code",
    "fountain code",
    "systematic code",
    "AL FEC code",
    "Sub-blocking",
    "FEC object delivery"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC6330",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc6330"
}