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We consider the problem of multicasting information from a source to a set of receivers over a network where intermediate network nodes perform randomized network coding operations on the source packets. We propose a channel model for the…

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Many optical networks face heterogeneous communication requests requiring topologies to be efficient and fault tolerant. For efficiency and distributed control, it is common in distributed systems and algorithms to group nodes into…

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This paper studies a special class of multicast index coding problems where a sender transmits messages to multiple receivers, each with some side information. Here, each receiver knows a unique message a priori, and there is no restriction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Lawrence Ong , Chin Keong Ho

We present a capacity-achieving coding scheme for unicast or multicast over lossy packet networks. In the scheme, intermediate nodes perform additional coding yet do not decode nor even wait for a block of packets before sending out coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-11 Desmond S. Lun , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Michelle Effros

The network coding problem asks whether data throughput in a network can be increased using coding (compared to treating bits as commodities in a flow). While it is well-known that a network coding advantage exists in directed graphs, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mark Braverman , Zhongtian He

Multicast is a central challenge for emerging multi-hop wireless architectures such as wireless mesh networks, because of its substantial cost in terms of bandwidth. In this report, we study one specific case of multicast: broadcasting,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-16 Song Yean Cho , Cédric Adjih , Philippe Jacquet

The first result is on the separability of the unicast capacity of stationary multi-channel multi-radio wireless networks, i.e., whether the capacity of such a network is equal to the sum of the capacities of the corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-26 Liangping Ma

Designing an efficient routing strategy is of great importance to alleviate traffic congestion in multilayer networks. In this work, we design an effective routing strategy for multilayer networks by comprehensively considering the roles of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-31 Lei Gao , Panpan Shu , Ming Tang , Wei Wang , Hui Gao

We analyze different strategies aimed at optimizing routing policies in the Internet. We first show that for a simple deterministic algorithm the local properties of the network deeply influence the time needed for packet delivery between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-19 Pablo Echenique , Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno

The problem of serving multicast flows in a crossbar switch is considered. Intra-flow linear network coding is shown to achieve a larger rate region than the case without coding. A traffic pattern is presented which is achievable with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 MinJi Kim , Jay Kumar Sundararajan , Muriel Medard , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ralf Koetter

We investigate a scheduling scheme incorporating network coding and channel varying information for the two-way relay networks. Our scheduler aims at minimizing the time span needed to send all the data of each source of the network. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Dong Min Kim , Seong-Lyun Kim

Random linear network codes can be designed and implemented in a distributed manner, with low computational complexity. However, these codes are classically implemented over finite fields whose size depends on some global network parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-04 Tracey Ho , Sidharth Jaggi , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Lingxiao Xia

We propose a new way to construct a multicast coding scheme for linear deterministic relay networks. Our construction can be regarded as a generalization of the well-known multicast network coding scheme of Jaggi et al. to linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 S. M. Sadegh Tabatabaei Yazdi , Serap A. Savari

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of the optimization and performance evaluation of various routing algorithms within the context of computer networks. Routing algorithms are critical for determining the most efficient path for…

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Network coding and opportunistic routing are two recognized innovative ideas to improve the performance of wireless networks by utilizing the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In the last decade, there has been considerable research…

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In the practical network communications, many internal nodes in the network are required to not only transmit messages but decode source messages. For different applications, four important classes of linear network codes in network coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

Internet traffic continues to grow relentlessly, driven largely by increasingly high resolution video content. Although studies have shown that the majority of packets processed by Internet routers are pass-through traffic, they nonetheless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Ping Yin , Steven Diamond , Bill Lin , Stephen Boyd

In this paper, for the purposes of information transmission and network error correction simultaneously, three classes of important linear network codes in network coding, linear multicast/broadcast/dispersion codes are generalized to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

The problem of maximizing the average rate in a multicast network subject to a coverage constraint (minimum quality of service) is studied. Assuming the channel state information is available only at the receiver side and single antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-29 Seyed Reza Mirghaderi , Alireza Bayesteh , Amir K. Khandani

We study network coding gaps for the problem of makespan minimization of multiple unicasts. In this problem distinct packets at different nodes in a network need to be delivered to a destination specific to each packet, as fast as possible.…

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