http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5510.txt
RFC 5510: Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes, J. Lacan, V. Roca, J. Peltotalo, S. Peltotalo2009-04-01T23:00:00-00:00Reed-Solomon codes belong to the class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, i.e., they enable a receiver to recover the k source symbols from any set of k received symbols. The schemes described here are compatible with the implementation from Luigi Rizzo. [STANDARDS-TRACK]