Download or read book Network Coding Multi packet Reception and Feedback written by Arman Rezaee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis, we address the combination of three technologies in wireless broadcast networks: network coding, multi-packet reception (MPR) and feedback. We will primarily discuss the performance of a single-hop network, both with and without these technologies. A single-hop network can be used as a building block for larger and more topologically diverse networks and provides a basis for analyzing the interaction of these mechanisms. Because many applications are interested in speedy transmission of data, we have focused our attention on answering the question of how to optimally use these technologies in order to reduce the overall transmission time. Initially, we consider a fully connected network and show that MPR capability of m can reduce the total time for a file transfer by as much as a factor of m/2 without network coding. We emphasize that a two-fold MPR capability will not reduce the total dissemination time without network coding and is thus ineffective. We also show that no gain can be obtained, if network coding is used without MPR. However the combination of network coding and MPR can reduce the total transfer time by as much as a factor of m. We then consider transmission of a file over a broadcast erasure channel with a potentially large number of receivers. Noting that traditional reliable multicast protocols suffer from the inevitable feedback implosion associated with servicing a large number of receivers, we present a novel feedback protocol dubbed SMART, Speeding Multicast by Acknowledgment Reduction Technique. The protocol involves an asymptotically optimal predictive model which determines a suitable feedback time that assures most receivers have completed the download. We also introduce a new single slot feedback mechanism, which enables any number of receivers to give their feedback simultaneously. We show that scheduling the feedback according to this predictive model and enhancing the protocol by the single slot mechanism reduces the feedback traffic as well as transmission of extraneous coded packets, and will provide a good completion time characteristic for all users. We show that counter to conventional wisdom, Quality of Experience (QoE) of multicast sessions is not sensitive to the number of users, however it is very sensitive to imbalanced effective rate and heterogeneity among users. Furthermore, we show that SMART performs nearly as well as an omniscient transmitter that requires no feedback.
Download or read book Cross layer Design with Multi packet Reception MAC and Network Coding in Multi hop Networks written by Jason Michael Cloud and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-layer design approach is proposed that can be used to optimize the cooperative use of multi-packet reception (MPR) and network coding. A simple and intuitive model is constructed for the behavior of an opportunistic network coding scheme called COPE proposed by Katti et. al., MPR, the 802.11 MAC, and their combination. The model is then applied to key small canonical topology components and their larger counterparts. The results obtained from this model match the available experimental results with fidelity. Using this model, fairness allocation by the 802.11 MAC is shown to significantly impede performance and cause non-monotonic saturation behaviors; hence, a new MAC approach is devised that not only substantially improves throughput by providing monotonic saturation but provides fairness to flows of information rather than to nodes. Using this improved MAC, it is shown that cooperation between network coding and MPR achieves super-additive gains of up to 6.3 times that of routing alone with the standard 802.11 MAC. Furthermore, the model is extended to analyze the improved MAC's asymptotic, delay, and throughput behaviors. Finally, it is shown that although network performance is reduced under substantial asymmetry or limited implementation of MPR to a central/bottleneck node, there are some important practical cases, even under these conditions, where MPR, network coding, and their combination provide significant gains.
Download or read book Design of Network Coding Schemes in Wireless Networks written by Zihuai Lin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a consolidated view of the various network coding techniques to be implemented at the design of the wireless networks for improving its overall performance. It covers multiple sources communicating with multiple destinations via a common relay followed by network coded modulation schemes for multiple access relay channels. Performance of the distributed systems based on distributed convolutional codes with network coded modulation is covered including a two-way relay channel (TWRC). Two MIF protocols are proposed including derivation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and development of threshold of the channel conditions of both. Features: Systematically investigates coding and modulation for wireless relay networks. Discusses how to apply lattice codes in implementing lossless communications and lossy source coding over a network. Focusses on theoretical approach for performance optimization. Includes various network coding strategies for different networks. Reviews relevant existing and ongoing research in optimization along with practical code design. This book aims at Researchers, Professionals and Graduate students in Networking, Communications, Information, Coding Theory, Theoretical Computer Science, Performance Analysis and Resource Optimization, Applied Discrete Mathematics, and Applied Probability.
Download or read book Network Coding for Delay Challenged Environments written by Daniel Enrique Lucani and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delay is a fundamental problem of data communication and networks, a problem that is not usually addressed in classical coding, information or networking theory. We focus on the general problem of delay challenged networks. This delay challenge may be related to different reasons, for example, 1) large latency, which can affect the performance of the system in delay, throughput or energy efficiency, 2) half-duplex constraints on the nodes, which precludes a node to receive and transmit at the same time, and/or 3) application-level requirements for reliable, fast and efficient dissemination of information. We consider three main problems of study and the role of network coding on solving these problems. The first is related to the problem of reliable communication in time-division duplexing channels, also known as half-duplex channels, in the presence of large latency. In large latency channels, feedback about received packets may lag considerably the transmission of the original packets, limiting the feedback's usefulness. Moreover, the time duplex constraints may entail that receiving feedback may be costly. In this work, we consider tailoring feedback and (network) coding jointly in such settings to reduce the mean delay for successful in order reception of packets. We find that, in certain applications, judicious choices provide results that are close to those that would be obtained with a full-duplex system. The second part of this thesis studies the problem of data dissemination in arbitrary networks. In particular, we study the problem of minimizing the delay incurred in disseminating a finite number of data packets. We show that the optimal solution to the problem can be thought of as a scheduling problem, which is hard to solve. Thus, we consider the use of a greedy linear network coding algorithm that only takes into account the current state of the system to make a decision. The proposed algorithm tries to maximize the impact on the network at each slot, i.e., maximize the number of nodes that will benefit from the coded packet sent by each active transmitter. We show that our scheme is considerably better, in terms of the number of slots to complete transmission, than schemes that choose the node with more information as the transmitter The third part of this work studies the case of underwater acoustic networks as an example of delay challenged networks. We consider the use of network coding under two different lights. First, as a means to obtain a lower bound on the transmission power of multicast connections in underwater networks. Second, to develop practical schemes useful in such networks. Finally, we study upper bounds on the transport capacity of underwater acoustic networks under unicast connections. We show that the amount of information that can be exchanged by each source-destination pair in underwater acoustic networks goes to zero as the number of nodes n goes to infinity. This occurs at least at a rate n-1/Qe-Wo(O(n-k)) where Wo represents the branch zero of the Lambert W function, and a path loss exponent of a. Note that typical values of the path loss exponent are a E [1, 2] for underwater acoustic networks. This is significantly different to the a> 2 of radio wireless applications.
Download or read book Design and Performance Optimization of Wireless Network Coding for Delay Sensitive Applications written by Mohammad Esmaeilzadeh Fereydani and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, network coding (NC) has emerged as a new paradigm for data communications and has attracted much popularity and research interest in information and coding theory, networking, wireless communications and data storage. Random linear NC (RLNC) is a subclass of NC that has shown to be suitable for a wide range of applications thanks to its desirable properties, namely throughput-optimality, simple encoder design and efficient operation with minimum feedback requirements. However, for delay-sensitive applications, the mentioned advantages come with two main issues that may restrict RLNC usage in practice. First is the trade-off between the delay and throughput performances of RLNC, which can adversely affect the throughput-optimality of RLNC and hence the overall performance of RLNC. Second is the usage of feedback, where even if feedback is kept at minimum it can still incur large amount of delay and thus degrade the RLNC performance, if not optimized properly. In this thesis, we aim to investigate these issues under two broad headings: RLNC for applications over time division duplexing (TDD) channels and RLNC for layered video streaming. For the first class of problems, we start with the reliable broadcast communication over TDD wireless channels with memory, in the presence of large latency. Considering TDD channels with large latency, excessive use of feedback could be costly. Therefore, joint optimization of feedback rate and RLNC parameters has been studied previously for memoryless channels to minimize the average transmission time for such settings. Here, we extend the methodology to the case of channels with memory by benefiting from a Gilbert-Elliot channel model. It is demonstrated that significant improvement in the performance could be achieved compared to the scheme which is oblivious to the temporal correlations in the erasure channels. Then, keeping our focus on network coded TDD broadcast systems with large latency, we consider delay sensitive applications and study the issue of throughput and packet drop rate (PDR) optimization as two performance metrics when the transmission time is considered fixed. We propose a systematic framework to investigate the advantage of using feedback by comparing feedback-free and feedback schemes. Furthermore, the complicated interplay of the mean throughputs and PDRs of users with different packet erasure conditions is discussed. Then, to better analyze the throughput performance of the proposed feedback-free scheme, we formulate the probability and cumulative density functions of users' throughputs and utilize them to investigate the problem of guaranteeing the quality of service. Finally, it is shown that the optimized feedback-free RLNC broadcast scheme works close enough to an idealistic RLNC scheme, where an omniscient sender is assumed to know the reception status of all users immediately after each transmission. For the second class of problems, we consider transmitting layered video streams over heterogeneous single-hop wireless networks using feedback-free RLNC. For the case of broadcasting single video stream, we combine RLNC with unequal error protection and our main purpose is twofold. First, to systematically investigate the benefits of the layered approach in servicing users with different reception capabilities. Second, to study the effect of not using feedback, by comparing feedback-free schemes with idealistic full-feedback schemes. To this end, we consider a content-independent performance metric and propose a general framework for calculation of this metric, which can highlight the effect of key parameters of the system, video and channel. We study the effect of number of layers and propose a scheme that selects the optimum number of layers adaptively to achieve the highest performance. Assessing the proposed schemes with real H.264 test streams, the trade-offs among the users' performances are discussed and the gain of adaptive selection of number of layers to improve the trade-offs is shown. Furthermore, it is observed that the performance gap between the proposed feedback-free scheme and the idealistic scheme is small and the adaptive selection of number of video layers further closes the gap. Finally, we extend the problem of layered video streaming to the case of transmitting multiple independent layered video streams and demonstrate the gain of coding across streams (i.e., inter-session RLNC) over coding only within streams (i.e., intra-session RLNC).
Download or read book On the Role of Feedback in Network Coding written by Jay Kumar Sundararajan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (cont.) This results in a novel and effective approach for congestion control over networks involving lossy links such as wireless links. Our scheme also allows intermediate nodes to perform re-encoding of the data packets. This in turn leads to a natural way of running TCP flows over networks that use multipath opportunistic routing along with network coding. We use the new type of ACKs to develop queue management algorithms for coded networks, which allow the queue size at nodes to track the true backlog in information with respect to the destination. We also propose feedback-based adaptive coding techniques that are aimed at reducing the decoding delay at the receivers. Different notions of decoding delay are considered, including an order-sensitive notion which assumes that packets are useful only when delivered in order. We study the asymptotic behavior of the expected queue size and delay, in the limit of heavy traffic.
Download or read book Network Coding with Multi generation Mixing written by Mohammed D. Halloush and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Network Coding written by Mohammad Matin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network coding is an elegant and novel technique that allows nodes in the network to perform coding operations at the packet level. In particular, network coding represents a powerful approach to protect data from losses due to link disconnections and can also exploit the combination of multiple links to deliver data to users with the possibility of recoding at intermediate nodes. This phenomenon will reduce information congestion at some nodes or links, which will improve the network information flow such as to increase network throughput and robustness. This book is intended to provide the current R
Download or read book Network Coding written by Tracey Ho and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network coding promises to significantly impact the way communications networks are designed, operated, and understood. The first book to present a unified and intuitive overview of the theory, applications, challenges, and future directions of this emerging field, this is a must-have resource for those working in wireline or wireless networking. *Uses an engineering approach - explains the ideas and practical techniques *Covers mathematical underpinnings, practical algorithms, code selection, security, and network management *Discusses key topics of inter-session (non-multicast) network coding, lossy networks, lossless networks, and subgraph-selection algorithms Starting with basic concepts, models, and theory, then covering a core subset of results with full proofs, Ho and Lun provide an authoritative introduction to network coding that supplies both the background to support research and the practical considerations for designing coded networks. This is an essential resource for graduate students and researchers in electronic and computer engineering and for practitioners in the communications industry.
Download or read book Network Coding written by Khaldoun Al Agha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network coding, a relatively new area of research, has evolved from the theoretical level to become a tool used to optimize the performance of communication networks – wired, cellular, ad hoc, etc. The idea consists of mixing “packets” of data together when routing them from source to destination. Since network coding increases the network performance, it becomes a tool to enhance the existing protocols and algorithms in a network or for applications such as peer-to-peer and TCP. This book delivers an understanding of network coding and provides a set of studies showing the improvements in security, capacity and performance of fixed and mobile networks. This is increasingly topical as industry is increasingly becoming more reliant upon and applying network coding in multiple applications. Many cases where network coding is used in routing, physical layer, security, flooding, error correction, optimization and relaying are given – all of which are key areas of interest. Network Coding is the ideal resource for university students studying coding, and researchers and practitioners in sectors of all industries where digital communication and its application needs to be correctly understood and implemented. Contents 1. Network Coding: From Theory to Practice, Youghourta Benfattoum, Steven Martin and Khaldoun Al Agha. 2. Fountain Codes and Network Coding for WSNs, Anya Apavatjrut, Claire Goursaud, Katia Jaffrès-Runser and Jean-Marie Gorce. 3. Switched Code for Ad Hoc Networks: Optimizing the Diffusion by Using Network Coding, Nour Kadi and Khaldoun Al Agha. 4. Security by Network Coding, Katia Jaffrès-Runser and Cédric Lauradoux. 5. Security for Network Coding, Marine Minier, Yuanyuan Zhang and Wassim Znaïdi. 6. Random Network Coding and Matroids, Maximilien Gadouleau. 7. Joint Network-Channel Coding for the Semi-Orthogonal MARC: Theoretical Bounds and Practical Design, Atoosa Hatefi, Antoine O. Berthet and Raphael Visoz. 8. Robust Network Coding, Lana Iwaza, Marco Di Renzo and Michel Kieffer. 9. Flow Models and Optimization for Network Coding, Eric Gourdin and Jeremiah Edwards.
Download or read book Network Coding Applications written by Christina Fragouli and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network Coding Applications looks at how ideas from network coding can have an impact on a number of new applications. It explains what network coding is, explores what its benefits are, and how much it costs to design and operate networks implementing network coding
Download or read book Network Coding for Quality of Service in Wireless Multi hop Networks written by Youghourta Benfattoum and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis we deal with the application of Network Coding to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) for wireless multi-hop networks. Since the medium is shared, wireless networks suffer from the negative interference impact on the bandwidth. It is thus interesting to propose a Network Coding based approach that takes into account this interference during the routing process. In this context, we first propose an algorithm minimizing the interference impact for unicast flows while respecting their required bandwidth. Then, we combine it with Network Coding to increase the number of admitted flows and with Topology Control to still improve the interference management. We show by simulation the benefit of combining the three fields: Network Coding, interference consideration and Topology Control. We also deal with delay management for multicast flows and use the Generation-Based Network Coding (GBNC) that combines the packets per blocks. Most of the works on GBNC consider a fixed generation size. Because of the network state variations, the delay of decoding and recovering a block of packets can vary accordingly degrading the QoS. To solve this problem, we propose a network-and content-aware method that adjusts the generation size dynamically to respect a certain decoding delay. We also enhance it to overcome the issue of acknowledgement loss. We then propose to apply our approach in a Home Area Network for Live TV and video streaming. Our solution provides QoS and Quality of Experience for the end user with no additional equipment. Finally, we focus on a more theoretical work in which we present a new Butterfly-based network for multi-source multi-destination flows. We characterize the source node buffer size using the queuing theory and show that it matches the simulation results.
Download or read book Network Coding for Multi user Wireless Networks written by Dong Van Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until a few years ago, wireless-capable laptops were considered novelties by many. It is now hard to find a laptop or a hand-held computing device that is not wireless-ready. As wireless devices are becoming commodities, they have also become an indispensable part of the modern society. Not surprisingly, research in wireless communication has also been significantly advanced in the past decade, to accommodate the growing demand for these wireless devices and applications. Yet, many challenges remain in transmitting information reliably, timely, and efficiently over wireless channels. Unlike wired transmissions, wireless transmissions are subjected to limited bandwidth, and are much more susceptible to environmental noises such as fading and interferences. As a result, it is difficult to transmit information reliably at high data rates. The problem is further compounded by the strict requirements on maximum delay and minimum throughput imposed by current and future multimedia applications. That said, recent advances in coding techniques, communication protocols and architectures provide an optimistic view of future wireless networks that help proliferate high quality wireless multimedia applications. One significant advance in coding theory in the past decade is em Network Coding (NC). NC refers to the notion of mixing information from different flows at intermediate nodes in the network, and it has been shown to achieve throughput capacity. In this dissertation, we investigate NC theories and practical techniques for improving throughput and reducing delay of wireless networking applications. Specifically, the dissertation will focus on theoretical analysis of NC benefits and limitations as well as design of NC-based practical protocols for improving performance in a wireless access network such as Wi-Fi or WiMax. There are three main contributions of the dissertation. First, we propose a NC-based retransmission protocol for broadcasting information from a wireless base station to multiple users in a wireless access network. The proposed NC protocol exploits the special property of wireless transmissions that users in proximity, can listen to each other's transmissions to code the packets in such a way to increase every user throughputs. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results show a significant throughput gain when using the proposed NC protocol over the standard ARQ protocol. Second, we propose a NC-based packet scheduler at a wireless base station for delivering multimedia streams, particularly scalable video streams to multiple users in a wireless access network. We formulate the NC-based packet scheduler problem in the framework of Markov Decision Process (MDP) in which, packet delay, inter-dependency of packets, and different visual contributions of packet types are taken into account, to optimize for the overall visual qualities. We describe an optimal scheduler for transmitting scalable video streams to a small number of users. For a large number of users, we propose a heuristic, simulation-based algorithm for finding the near-optimal transmission policy. Third, we introduce Random Network Coding (RNC) techniques. More specifically, we present a prioritized RNC scheme for multimedia transmissions for multi-user in a wireless access network. We then study a real-world implementation of RNC. We describe the step-by-step design of encoding and decoding modules of RNC and measure their computational rates.
Download or read book Cognitive Radio Mobile Communications and Wireless Networks written by Mubashir Husain Rehmani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the latest research and development of new technologies for cognitive radio, mobile communications, and wireless networks. The contributors discuss the research and requirement analysis and initial standardization work towards 5G cellular systems and the capacity problems it presents. They show how cognitive radio, with the capability to flexibly adapt its parameters, has been proposed as the enabling technology for unlicensed secondary users to dynamically access the licensed spectrum owned by legacy primary users on a negotiated or an opportunistic basis. They go on to show how cognitive radio is now perceived in a much broader paradigm that will contribute to solve the resource allocation problem that 5G requirements raise. The chapters represent hand-selected expanded papers from EAI sponsored and hosted conferences such as the 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, the 11th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, the 8th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, and the EAI International Conference on Software Defined Wireless Networks and Cognitive Technologies for IoT.
Download or read book Network Coding written by Somayeh Kafaie and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network coding is an innovative idea to boost the capacity of wireless networks. However, there are not enough analytical studies on throughput and end-to-end delay of network coding in multi-hop wireless mesh network that incorporates the specifications of IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function. In this dissertation, we utilize queuing theory to propose an analytical framework for bidirectional unicast flows in multi-hop wireless mesh networks. We study the throughput and end-to-end delay of inter-flow network coding under the IEEE 802.11 standard with CSMA/CA random access and exponential back-o↵ time considering clock freezing and virtual carrier sensing, and formulate several parameters such as the probability of successful transmission in terms of bit error rate and collision probability, waiting time of packets at nodes, and retransmission mechanism. Our model uses a multi-class queuing network with stable queues, where coded packets have a non-preemptive higher priority over native packets, and forwarding of native packets is not delayed if no coding opportunities are available. The accuracy of our analytical model is verified using computer simulations. Furthermore, while inter-flow network coding is proposed to help wireless networks approach the maximum capacity, the majority of research conducted in this area is yet to fully utilize the broadcast nature of wireless networks, and to perform e↵ectively under poor channel quality. This vulnerability is mostly caused by assuming fixed route between the source and destination that every packet should travel through. This assumption not only limits coding opportunities, but can also cause bu↵er overflow at some specific intermediate nodes. Although some studies considered scattering of the flows dynamically in the network, they still face some limitations. This dissertation explains pros and cons of some prominent research in network coding and proposes a Flexible and Opportunistic Network Coding scheme (FlexONC) as a solution to such issues. Moreover, this research discovers that the conditions used in previous studies to combine packets of di↵erent flows are overly optimistic and would a↵ect the network performance adversarially. Therefore, we provide a more accurate set of rules for packet encoding. The experimental results show that FlexONC outperforms previous methods especially in networks with high bit error rates, by better utilizing redundant packets permeating the network, and benefiting from precise coding conditions.
Download or read book Multipacket Reception in Wireless Communication Networks written by Qing Zhao and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
