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In a single hop broadcast packet erasure network, we demonstrate that it is possible to provide multirate packet delivery outside of what is given by the network min-cut. This is achieved by using a deterministic non-block-based network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-06 Amy Fu , Parastoo Sadeghi , Muriel Medard

This paper investigates the problem of single-source multicasting over a communication network in the presence of restricted adversaries. When the adversary is constrained to operate only on a prescribed subset of edges, classical cut-set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kılıç , Sascha Kurz , Alberto Ravagnani

We give an information flow interpretation for multicasting using network coding. This generalizes the fluid model used to represent flows to a single receiver. Using the generalized model, we present a decentralized algorithm to minimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Kapil Bhattad , Niranjan Ratnakar , Ralf Koetter , Krishna R. Narayanan

The problem of finding network codes for general connections is inherently difficult in capacity constrained networks. Resource minimization for general connections with network coding is further complicated. Existing methods for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Fan Lai , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy , Dhaivat Pandya

The rate optimization for wireless networks with low SNR is investigated. While the capacity in the limit of disappearing SNR is known to be linear for fading and non-fading channels, we study the problem of operating in low SNR wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Mohit Thakur , Muriel Médard

This work considers the problem of transmitting multiple compressible sources over a network at minimum cost. The aim is to find the optimal rates at which the sources should be compressed and the network flows using which they should be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-13 Aditya Ramamoorthy

In Index coding there is a single sender with multiple messages and multiple receivers each wanting a different set of messages and knowing a different set of messages a priori. The Index Coding problem is to identify the minimum number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kavitha. R , B. Sundar Rajan

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

This work investigates the maximum broadcast throughput and its achievability in multi-hop wireless networks with half-duplex node constraint. We allow the use of physical-layer network coding (PNC). Although the use of PNC for unicast has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Shen Feng , Soung C. Liew

For general connections, the problem of finding network codes and optimizing resources for those codes is intrinsically difficult and little is known about its complexity. Most of the existing solutions rely on very restricted classes of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy

To better understand the wireless network design with a large number of hops, we investigate a line network formed by general discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), which may not be identical. Our focus lies on Generalized Batched Network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jie Wang , Shenghao Yang , Yanyan Dong , Yiheng Zhang

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 focus on the following instance of an index coding problem, where a set of receivers are required to decode multiple messages, whilst each knows one of the messages a priori. In particular, here we consider a generalized setting where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Lawrence Ong , Fabian Lim , Chin Keong Ho

The subspace channel was introduced by Koetter and Kschischang as an adequate model for the communication channel from the source node to a sink node of a multicast network that performs random linear network coding. So far, attention has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-12 Roberto W. Nobrega , Bartolomeu F. Uchoa-Filho

We consider a two-unicast-$Z$ network over a directed acyclic graph of unit capacitated edges; the two-unicast-$Z$ network is a special case of two-unicast networks where one of the destinations has apriori side information of the unwanted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mohammad Fahim , Viveck Cadambe

Grassmannian codes are known to be useful in error-correction for random network coding. Recently, they were used to prove that vector network codes outperform scalar linear network codes, on multicast networks, with respect to the alphabet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Tuvi Etzion , Hui Zhang

We introduce a new technique to certify lower bounds on the multicut size using network coding. In directed networks the network coding rate is not a lower bound on the multicut, but we identify a class of networks on which the rate is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Anna Blasiak

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

One major open problem in network coding is to characterize the capacity region of a general multi-source multi-demand network. There are some existing computational tools for bounding the capacity of general networks, but their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michelle Effros , Tracey Ho , Shirin Jalali

We investigate the achievable rate of data transmission from sources to sinks through a multiple-relay network. We study achievable rates for omniscient coding, in which all nodes are considered in the coding design at each node. We find…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Lawrence Ong , Mehul Motani