Taxonomy of Coding Techniques for Efficient Network Communications

This document is the product of the Network Coding Research Group (NWCRG). It summarizes a recommended terminology for Network Coding concepts and constructs. It provides a comprehensive set of terms in order to avoid ambiguities in future IRTF and IETF documents on Network Coding. This document is in-line with the terminology used by the RFCs produced by the Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) and FEC Framework (FECFRAME) IETF working groups.