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This work presents the design and implementation of a real-time network coding system integrated into the IP layer of a 5G testbed, offering an alternative to conventional retransmission-based reliability mechanisms such as ARQ and HARQ.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Laura Landon , Vipindev Adat Vasudevan , Junmo Sung , Muriel Médard

In recent years, network coding has emerged as an innovative method that helps wireless network approaches its maximum capacity, by combining multiple unicasts in one broadcast. However, the majority of research conducted in this area is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Somayeh Kafaie , Yuanzhu Chen , Mohamed Hossam Ahmed , Octavia A. Dobre

Our primary goal in this paper is to traverse the performance gap between two linear network coding schemes: random linear network coding (RLNC) and instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) in terms of throughput and decoding delay. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Mingchao Yu , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi

As parallelism becomes critically important in the semiconductor technology, high-performance computing, and cloud applications, parallel network systems will increasingly follow suit. Today, parallelism is an essential architectural…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Anna Engelmann , Wolfgang Bziuk , Admela Jukan , Muriel Medard

In "On Coding for Reliable Communication over Packet Networks" (Lun, Medard, and Effros, Proc. 42nd Annu. Allerton Conf. Communication, Control, and Computing, 2004), a capacity-achieving coding scheme for unicast or multicast over lossy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Desmond S. Lun , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Michelle Effros

In this paper, we present a coding-theoretic framework for message transmission over packet-switched networks. Network is modeled as a channel which can induce packet errors, deletions, insertions, and out of order delivery of packets. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Dejan Vukobratović

Linear network coding requires arithmetic operations over Galois fields, more specifically over finite extension fields. While coding over GF(2) reduces to simple XOR operations, this field is less preferred for practical applications of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Stephan M. Günther , Nicolas Appel , Georg Carle

Batched network coding is a variation of random linear network coding which has low computational and storage costs. In order to adapt to random fluctuations in the number of erasures in individual batches, it is not optimal to recode and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hoover H. F. Yin , Bin Tang , Ka Hei Ng , Shenghao Yang , Xishi Wang , Qiaoqiao Zhou

P4 is a high-level language for programming protocol-independent packet processors. P4 works in conjunction with SDN control protocols like OpenFlow. In its current form, OpenFlow explicitly specifies protocol headers on which it operates.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Pat Bosshart , Dan Daly , Martin Izzard , Nick McKeown , Jennifer Rexford , Cole Schlesinger , Dan Talayco , Amin Vahdat , George Varghese , David Walker

This paper considers the multiple-access relay channel in a setting where two source nodes transmit packets to a destination node, both directly and via a relay node, over packet erasure channels. Intra-session network coding is used at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amjad Saeed Khan , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

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

We consider communication over a noisy network under randomized linear network coding. Possible error mechanism include node- or link- failures, Byzantine behavior of nodes, or an over-estimate of the network min-cut. Building on the work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-27 Andrea Montanari , Ruediger Urbanke

Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) is a transmission scheme that opts for linear combinations of the transmitted packets at a subset of the intermediate nodes. This scheme is usually considered when Network Coding (NC) is desired over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Amine Brahimi , Fatiha Merazka

In this paper, we propose a methodology to compute the optimal finite-length coding rate for random linear network coding schemes over a line network. To do so, we first model the encoding, reencoding, and decoding process of different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Tan Do-Duy , M. Ángeles Vázquez-Castro

In recent years, network coding has been investigated as a method to obtain improvements in wireless networks. A typical assumption of previous work is that relay nodes performing network coding can decode the messages from sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sichao Yang , Ralf Koetter

This letter considers two groups of source nodes. Each group transmits packets to its own designated destination node over single-hop links and via a cluster of relay nodes shared by both groups. In an effort to boost reliability without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amjad Saeed Khan , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

Programmable data planes enable users to design data plane algorithms for network devices, providing extensive flexibility for network customization. Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors (P4) has become the most widely adopted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mingyu Ma , Giang T. Nguyen

Random linear network coding (RLNC) in theory achieves the max-flow capacity of multicast networks, at the cost of high decoding complexity. To improve the performance-complexity tradeoff, we consider the design of sparse network codes. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Ye Li , Wai-Yip Chan , Steven D. Blostein

Packet scheduling is a fundamental networking task that recently received renewed attention in the context of programmable data planes. Programmable packet scheduling systems such as those based on Push-In First-Out (PIFO) abstraction…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Habib Mostafaei , Maciej Pacut , Stefan Schmid

Data gathering operations in remote locations often rely on relay drones, which collect, store and deliver transmitted information to a ground control station. The probability of the ground control station successfully reconstructing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou