Crisis informática: un análisis sociotécnico el yin-yang o las relaciones de la sociedad con la tecnología

A partir del 29 de noviembre se desarrollará en la Escuela de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de Madrid un curso sobre la Crisis de la Informática, en el que se intentará un análisis de las líneas de fuerza de la tormenta de cambios tecnológicos, industriales, organizativos y educativos que está agitando a nuestro sector. Es un momento propicio para esbozar en este articulo unos comentarios sobre el tema.

Inter-Packet Symbol Approach To Reed-Solomon FEC Codes For RTP-Multimedia Stream Protection

This paper presents an alternative Forward Error Correction scheme, based on Reed-Solomon codes, with the aim of protecting the transmission of RTP-multimedia streams: the inter-packet symbol approach. This scheme is based on an alternative bit structure that allocates each symbol of the Reed-Solomon code in several RTP-media packets. This characteristic permits to exploit better the recovery capability of Reed-Solomon codes against bursty packet losses. The performance of our approach has been studied in terms of encoding/decoding time versus recovery capability, and compared with other proposed schemes in the literature. The theoretical analysis has shown that our approach allows the use of a lower size of the Galois Fields compared to other solutions. This lower size results in a decrease of the required encoding/decoding time while keeping a comparable recovery capability. Finally, experimental results have been carried out to assess the performance of our approach compared to other schemes in a simulated environment, where models for wireless and wireline channels have been considered.