Identifying the network coding opportunity

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-29-2010

Abstract

The broadcast nature of wireless transmission makes network coding possible in wireless networks. The state-of-the-art algorithm, referred to as COPE, utilizes opportunistic listening to encode packets from different unicast sessions. In theory, the network coding gain of COPE is only dependent on the network topology. In practice, it is also dependent on the traffic pattern and MAC layer scheduling. In this paper, we propose an efficient and scalable algorithm "Identifying the Coding OPportunity (ICOP)" to identify the network coding opportunity in a wireless network that takes both the topology and the traffic pattern in the network into consideration. The advantages of ICOP are that it does not require complicated MAC layer scheduling and it does not require extra communication overhead. Our simulations demonstrate that ICOP performs better than COPE in terms of coding gains in the networks with non-evenly distributed traffic patterns.

Identifier

77953884975 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781424455935]

Publication Title

33rd IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2010 Conference Proceedings

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/SARNOF.2010.5469802

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