3.1.1.6 FEC Computations
This section explains the operations involved in generating an FEC Packet. An FEC Packet is generated by a linear combination of a number of Source Packets, as described in section 1.3.2.2, over a Galois Field, as specified in [Bewersdorff]. A brief introduction on finite field arithmetic is given in section 3.1.1.6.1. The coefficients of the equation are described in section 3.1.1.6.4. The actual FEC encoding and decoding are described in section 3.1.1.6.2 and section 3.1.1.6.3, respectively.