Reliable Broadband Communication Using a Burst Erasure Correcting Code (1990)
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@MISC{McAuley90reliablebroadband,
author = {A.J. McAuley},
title = {Reliable Broadband Communication Using a Burst Erasure Correcting Code},
year = {1990}
}
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Abstract
Traditionally, a transport protocol corrects errors in a computer communication network using a simple ARQ protocol. With the arrival of broadband networks, forward error correction is desirable as a complement to ARQ. This paper describes a simplified Reed-Solomon erasure correction coder architecture, adapted for congestion loss in a broadband network. Simulations predict it can both encode and decode at rates up to 1 gigabit per second in a custom 1 micron CMOS VLSI chip. 1. INTRODUCTION As part of a research effort to find a transport protocol (TP) suitable for broadband networks, this paper discusses the use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) for error control. While other TPs use Automatic Repeat ReQuest (ARQ) exclusively [01,02], our TP, known as TP++, is considering using FEC to complement ARQ. Section 2 introduces the different types of error control, while section 3 describes the nature of the errors on a broadband network. Section 4 shows that recent improvements in technolo...
