Reliable broadband communication using a burst erasure correcting code

  • Authors:
  • A. J. McAuley

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Communication Research Group, Bellcore, 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ

  • Venue:
  • SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
  • 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.