Subject: [dtn-interest] Erasure Coding Extension Internet Drafts available for review.

From: John Zinky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:23:15 -0400

We would like to announce an extension to the DTN protocol to support fragmentation of large payloads in the case of highly disrupted networks. The technique introduces Forward Error Correcting Codes into a bundle extension block and defines the Random Binary FEC scheme, which is appropriate for situations with huge drop rates +90%. also other FEC schemes are supported, such as Block Parity.

A set of three internet-drafts are on a temporary website until they can be posted on the IETF site (Aug 2012).
  http://spindle3.ir.bbn.com/docs/erasurecoding/

Three implementations exist for the Erasure Coding extension (Java Application, C application and DTN 2.8 routing module). This software will be released open-source, but are currently stuck in the approval process.

Any comments are welcome.

Thanks
John Zinky
Armando Caro
Greg Stein