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Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanxiao Liu , Shenghao Yang , Cheuk Ting Li

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

Multicast allows sending a message to multiple recipients without having to create and send a separate message for each recipient. This preserves network bandwidth, which is particularly important in time-sensitive networks. These networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Heiko Geppert , Frank Dürr , Simon Naß , Kurt Rothermel

While it is known that using network coding can significantly improve the throughput of directed networks, it is a notorious open problem whether coding yields any advantage over the multicommodity flow (MCF) rate in undirected networks. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Mark Braverman , Sumegha Garg , Ariel Schvartzman

In this paper we present matrix game-theoretic models for joint routing, network coding, and scheduling problem. First routing and network coding are modeled by using a new approach based on compressed topology matrix that takes into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-14 Ebrahim Karami , Savo Glisic

This paper considers the problem of network coding for multiple unicast connections in networks represented by directed acyclic graphs. The concept of interference alignment, traditionally used in interference networks, is extended to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Abhik Das , Sriram Vishwanath , Syed Jafar , Athina Markopoulou

In recent years, network coding has emerged as an innovative method that helps a wireless network approach 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

We consider the problem of error control in a coded, multicast network, focusing on the scenario where the errors can occur only on a proper subset of the network edges. We model this problem via an adversarial noise, presenting a formal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Allison Beemer , Altan Berdan Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

In this paper, we consider a three node, two-way relay system with digital network coding over static channels where all link gains are assumed to be constant during transmission. The aim is to minimize total energy consumption while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Zhi Chen , Teng Joon Lim , Mehul Motani

It has been well established that wireless network coding can significantly improve the efficiency of multi-hop wireless networks. However, in a stochastic environment some of the packets might not have coding pairs, which limits the number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yu-Pin Hsu , Navid Abedini , Natarajan Gautam , Alex Sprintson , Srinivas Shakkottai

In this paper, we consider networks with multiple unicast sessions. Generally, non-linear network coding is needed to achieve the whole rate region of network coding. Yet, there exist networks for which routing is sufficient to achieve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Chun Meng , Minghua Chen , Athina Markopoulou

The evolution of 5G and Beyond networks has enabled new applications with stringent end-to-end latency requirements, but providing reliable low-latency service with high throughput over public wireless networks is still a significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Andrea Bedin , Federico Chiariotti , Stepan Kucera , Andrea Zanella

In this paper we close the gap between end-to-end diversity coding and intra-session network coding for unicast connections resilient against single link failures. In particular, we show that coding operations are sufficient to perform at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Peter Babarczi , Janos Tapolcai , Lajos Ronyai , Muriel Medard

Network coding is a new technique to transmit data through a network by letting the intermediate nodes combine the packets they receive. Given a network, the network coding solvability problem decides whether all the packets requested by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Maximilien Gadouleau

We study and compare the Shannon capacity region and the stable throughput region for a random access system in which source nodes multicast their messages to multiple destination nodes. Under an erasure channel model which accounts for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-20 Brooke Shrader , Anthony Ephremides

Network Coding (NC) shows great potential in various communication scenarios through changing the packet forwarding principles of current networks. It can improve not only throughput, latency, reliability and security but also alleviates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Dávid Szabó , Attila Csoma , Péter Megyesi , András Gulyás , Frank H. P. Fitzek

The problem of computing a linear combination of sources over a multiple access channel is studied. Inner and outer bounds on the optimal tradeoff between the communication rates are established when encoding is restricted to random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pinar Sen , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

We consider a wireless broadcast station that transmits packets to multiple users. The packet requests for each user may overlap, and some users may already have certain packets. This presents a problem of broadcasting in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-10 Michael J. Neely , Arash Saber Tehrani , Zhen Zhang

In this paper, we study video streaming over wireless networks with network coding capabilities. We build upon recent work, which demonstrated that network coding can increase throughput over a broadcast medium, by mixing packets from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-06-12 Hulya Seferoglu , Athina Markopoulou

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) naturally supports multi-path communication, as it allows the simultaneous use of multiple interfaces (e.g. LTE and WiFi). When multiple sources and multiple clients are considered, the optimal set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jonnahtan Saltarin , Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Torsten Braun