Section: New Software and Platforms

SWIF-codec

An open-source sliding window FEC codec

Keyword: Error Correction Code

Functional Description: This development is done in the context of the "Coding for Efficient Network Communications" IRTF Research Group (NWCRG, [https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/nwcrg]) and IETF hackathon.

This work has strong relationships with the Generic API I-D [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-roca-nwcrg-generic-fec-api/] and RFC 8681 on RLC codes [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8681] as examples of sliding window codes.

• Authors: Vincent Roca, Cédric Adjih, Oumaima Attia and François Michel

• Contact: Vincent Roca

• URL: https://github.com/irtf-nwcrg/swif-codec