Section: New Software and Platforms

OPENFEC

Keyword: Error Correction Code

Functional Description: OpenFEC is a C-language implementation of several Application-Level Forward Erasure Correction (AL-FEC) codecs, namely: Reed-Solomon (RFC 5510), LDPC-Staircase (RFC 5170) codes, and RLC (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rlc-fec-scheme/). Two versions are available: an open-source, unsupported version (http://openfec.org), and an advanced version commercialized by the Expway SME.

Release Functional Description: Added support of RLC codes (Random Linear Codes), based on a sliding encoding window.

• Participants: Christophe Neumann, Belkacem Teibi, Jérome Lacan, Jonathan Detchart, Julien Laboure, Kevin Chaumont, Mathieu Cunche and Vincent Roca

• Partner: Expway

• Contact: Vincent Roca

• URL: http://openfec.org/