Given a network of lossless links with rate constraints, a source node, and a set of destination nodes, the multicast capacity is the maximum rate at which the source can transfer common information to the destination...
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Given a network of lossless links with rate constraints, a source node, and a set of destination nodes, the multicast capacity is the maximum rate at which the source can transfer common information to the destinations. The multicast capacity cannot exceed the capacity of any cut separating the source from a destination;the minimum of the cut capacities is called the cut bound. A fundamental theorem in graph theory by Edmonds established that if all nodes other than the source are destinations, the cut bound can be achieved by routing. In general, however, the cut bound cannot be achieved by routing. Ahlswede et al established that the cut bound can be achieved by performing network coding, which generalizes routing by allowing information to be mixed. This paper presents a unifying theorem that includes Edmonds' theorem and Ahlswede et al.'s theorem as special cases. Specifically, it shows that the multicast capacity can still be achieved even if information mixing is only allowed on edges entering relay nodes. This unifying theorem is established via a graph theoretic hardiviring theorem, together with the network coding theorems for multicasting. The proof of the hardwiring theorem implies a new proof of Edmonds' theorem.
In this paper, network coding aware routing protocol for lossy wireless networks is proposed. It considers both potential coding opportunity in available route discovery process and link delivery ratio in optimal rout...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424436927
In this paper, network coding aware routing protocol for lossy wireless networks is proposed. It considers both potential coding opportunity in available route discovery process and link delivery ratio in optimal route selection. In route discovery process, it detects whether current flow can be coded with established flows in networks. And when more than one coding schemes exists in some intermediate node, it can determine coding scheme with the highest priority. Besides, in optimal path selection process, it adopts an improved ETX metric to estimate and choose the path which has lowest transmission count. Simulation results show that our proposed protocol can effectively improve the throughput of lossy wireless networks.
In delay-tolerant networks where connectivity between nodes is intermittent, replication-based delivery mechanisms are often employed to deliver messages in a store-carry-forward manner instead of end-to-end delivery ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467359399;9781467359382
In delay-tolerant networks where connectivity between nodes is intermittent, replication-based delivery mechanisms are often employed to deliver messages in a store-carry-forward manner instead of end-to-end delivery techniques that are mainly used in traditional computer networks and mobile ad-hoc networks. However, multicasting with replication-based methodologies can induce considerable message traffic and longer delivery delay time, thereby being vulnerable upon system performance. This paper exploits the potential of network coding to design an efficient network-coding multicast mechanism in delay-tolerant networks. In this design, intermediate nodes in a network can perform a specific remix qualification approach which can not only alleviate the dependency problem among coded blocks but also generate more innovative coded blocks for restoring the original message by destination nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed mechanism is able to achieve cost-effective performance as compared with the naive network-coding and the replication-based delivery mechanisms for message multicasting in delay-tolerant networks.
The poor performance of TCP over multi-hop wireless networks is well known. In this paper we explore to what extent network coding can help to improve the throughput performance of TCP controlled bulk transfers over a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424417964
The poor performance of TCP over multi-hop wireless networks is well known. In this paper we explore to what extent network coding can help to improve the throughput performance of TCP controlled bulk transfers over a chain topology multi-hop wireless network. The nodes use a CSMA/CA mechanism, such as IEEE 802.11's DCF, to perform distributed packet scheduling. The reverse flowing TCP ACKs are sought to be X-ORed with forward flowing TCP data packets. We find that, without any modification to the MAC protocol, the gain from network coding is negligible. The inherent coordination problem of carrier sensing based random access in multi-hop wireless networks dominates the performance. We provide a theoretical analysis that yields a throughput bound with network coding. We then propose a distributed modification of the IEEE 802.11 DCF, based on tuning the back-off mechanism using a feedback approach. Simulation studies show that the proposed mechanism when combined with network coding, improves the performance of a TCP session by more than 100%.
In this paper, we investigate transmission techniques for a fundamental cooperative cognitive radio network, i.e., a radio system where a Secondary user may act as relay for messages sent by the Primary user, hence of...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538672723
In this paper, we investigate transmission techniques for a fundamental cooperative cognitive radio network, i.e., a radio system where a Secondary user may act as relay for messages sent by the Primary user, hence offering performance improvement of Primary user transmissions, while at the same time obtaining more transmission opportunities for its own transmissions. Specifically, we examine the possibility of improving the overall system performance by employing network coding techniques. The objective is to achieve this while affecting Primary user transmissions only positively, namely: 1) avoid network coding operations at the Primary transmitter in order avoid increase of its complexity and storage requirements, 2) keep the order of packets received by the Primary receiver the same as in the non cooperative case and 3) induce packet service times that are stochastically smaller than packet service times induced in the non-cooperative case. A network coding algorithm that operates without knowledge of channel and packet arrival rate statistics, is investigated in terms of achieved throughput region. It is shown that the proposed algorithm enlarges Secondary user throughput as compared to the case where the Secondary transmitter acts as a simple relay, while leaving the Primary user stability region unaffected.
In this paper, we investigate a network coding-aware channel allocation and routing scheme for multi-hop cognitive radio networks. We consider network coding and channel availability in cognitive radio networks and ma...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467309219;9781467309202
In this paper, we investigate a network coding-aware channel allocation and routing scheme for multi-hop cognitive radio networks. We consider network coding and channel availability in cognitive radio networks and maximize the throughput by allocating the channel and link rate appropriately. First, we model the activities of the primary users and the interference among the secondary users in a cognitive radio network and show how to implement network coding in the multi-hop cognitive radio network. Second, we formulate an optimization problem to maximize the throughput of the network. It takes advantage of the network coding opportunities and considers the channel availability constraint. By solving this optimization problem, we can determine how to allocate channels and rates of links in different channel availability scenarios. Furthermore, we compare the performance of our scheme with the coding oblivious routing for different scenarios of channel availability and maximum number of channels in a random wireless network. Our work brings insights on the benefits of network coding-aware routing in multi-hop cognitive radio networks.
In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), a multi-hop broadcast protocol is required to disseminate traffic warning information. Reducing broadcast message overhead while maintaining a high dissemination ratio is a very ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467359399;9781467359382
In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), a multi-hop broadcast protocol is required to disseminate traffic warning information. Reducing broadcast message overhead while maintaining a high dissemination ratio is a very challenging task. In this paper, we study how to improve the performance of sender-oriented broadcast protocols using network coding. We propose a scheme which uses network coding to improve the packet dissemination ratio without increasing the message overhead. In the proposed scheme, the source node specifies two relay nodes. With cooperation between two relay nodes, the proposed scheme significantly increases the packet reception ratio by utilizing the broadcast nature of wireless channel. We show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme by using both theoretical analysis and computer simulations.
It has been shown in the literature that network coding (NC) can boost the performance of wireless networks. However, to really obtain the potential gain of NC, efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols that ope...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479966646
It has been shown in the literature that network coding (NC) can boost the performance of wireless networks. However, to really obtain the potential gain of NC, efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols that operate with awareness of the NC functions are necessary. In this paper, we propose a novel NC-aware MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks that combines k-batch transmissions and multiple receiver-initiated reverse direction exchanges involving NC data to boost the overall network performance. The proposed protocol allows any node to transmit a burst of data packets in a single channel access invocation. Then, an intermediate node can transmit an NC data packet when receiving a valid data packet from a source node, without contending for channel access. Both analytical and simulation results presented in this paper show the high throughput and energy efficiency of the proposed protocol with gains ranging from 33% to 298% when compared to existing mechanisms based on the IEEE 802.11 Standard.
network coding has the potential to improve the performance of current and future communication systems (including transportation and storage) and is currently even considered for communication architectures between t...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467365550
network coding has the potential to improve the performance of current and future communication systems (including transportation and storage) and is currently even considered for communication architectures between the individual processors on same board or different boards in close proximity. Despite the fact that single core implementations show already comparable coding speeds with standard coding approaches, this paper pushes network coding to the next level by exploiting multicore architectures. The disruptive idea presented in the paper is to break with current software implementations and coding approaches and to adopt highly optimized dense matrix operations from the high performance computation field for network coding in order to increase the coding speed. The paper presents the novel coding approach for multicore architectures and shows coding speed gains on a commercial platform such as the Raspberry Pi2 with four cores in the order of up to one full magnitude. The speed increase gain is even higher than the number of cores of the Raspberry Pi2 since the newly introduced approach exploits the cache architecture way better than by-the-book matrix operations.
In this paper, we propose a distributed solution based on game-theoretic approaches to the topology formation problem for mobile wireless sensor networks with multi-source multicast flows. Our solution significantly r...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467389990
In this paper, we propose a distributed solution based on game-theoretic approaches to the topology formation problem for mobile wireless sensor networks with multi-source multicast flows. Our solution significantly reduces computational complexity by taking advantage of network coding. Finding an optimal topology for network coding in multi-source multicast flows is NP-hard problem, so the proposed algorithm provides a suboptimal solution with low computational complexity. We formulate the problem of distributed network topology formation as a network formation game by considering the nodes in the network as players that can take actions for making outgoing links. The proposed game, which consists of multiple players and multicast flows, can be decomposed into independent link formation games played by only two players with a unicast flow. The proposed algorithm is also guaranteed to converge, i.e., a stable network topology can be always formed. Our simulation results confirm that the computational complexity of the proposed solution is low enough for practical deployment in large-scale mobile, wireless sensor networks.
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