Study and describe error-correcting codes (Forward Error Correction, FEC) usable for storage and RAID applications with fixes blocks (sectors), for example, Reed-Solomon codes used for CD/DVD.

Describe random data corruption types (silent data errors) that are common for storage media (both in rotational, SSD and flash). Try to write a program that will simulate these data corruptions (for a media with sector size 512 or 4096 bytes) and will recover using an appropriate FEC algorithm.

For the implementation of FEC algorithm use open-source library of your choice.

Compare results and try to evaluate the suitability of tested algorithms (time and memory complexity, size of additional redundant data, flexibility).

• Description of state-of-the-art FEC algorithms.
• Description of random data storage corruption types.
• Comparison of at least three libraries that implement selected FEC algorithms.
• Discussion of achieved results.

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• Tomlinson et al., Error-Correction Coding and Decoding, ISBN 978-3-319-51102-3, Springer Nature