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LDPC FEC Facilities (FAQ, man pages)

Vincent Roca — 2006-04-11T15:25:39Z

LDPC FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
In brief: this FAQ contains a lot of practical information on the use of this LDPC codec. A MUST READ if you plan to use it.
LDPC Man Pages
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LDPC FEC Licence

Vincent Roca — 2006-04-06T13:13:37Z

This codec is:
Copyright (c) 2002-2006 INRIA - All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2003 by Radford M. Neal
It includes large portions of code written by Radford Neal and available here.
The code coming from Radford M. Neal is distributed under the following licence:
Permission is granted for anyone to copy, use, modify, or distribute these programs and accompanying documents for any purpose, provided this copyright notice is retained and prominently displayed, along with a (...)

LDPC FEC Details

Vincent Roca — 2006-04-06T13:11:06Z

General
Our LDPC codec is the only Open-Source GNU/LGPL large block FEC codec for the Packet Erasure Channel (e.g. Internet) case we are aware of. To the best of our knowledge, our codec does not infringe any patent. In particular it does not use any of the claims specified in the following Digital Fountain US Patents: #6073250, #6081909 and #6163870. If ever you disagree, please let us know so that we can see how to address the problem!
The codec is an object oriented C++ library. The (...)

LDPC FEC Documents

Vincent Roca — 2006-04-06T13:10:56Z

Standardization Activities
V. Roca, C. Neumann, D. Furodet, ``Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Staircase and Triangle Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes'', IETF RMT Working Group, RFC 5170 (Standards Track/Proposed Standard), June 2008. (ASCII)
In brief: this document fully specifies the two LDPC codes and their use. The goal is to enable interoperable independant implementations.
STMicroelectronics/AST and INRIA/Plan�te, ``LDPC benchmarking for DVB-H'', Document submitted to the (...)