Reliable Communication in Wireless Meshed Networks Using Network Coding

Peyman Pahlevani, Achuthan Paramanathan, Martin Hundebøll, Janus Heide, Stephan A. Rein, Frank H. P. Fitzek
2012 2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall)  
The advantages of network coding have been extensively studied in the field of wireless networks. Integrating network coding with existing IEEE 802.11 MAC layer is a challenging problem. The IEEE 802.11 MAC does not provide any reliability mechanisms for overheard packets. This paper addresses this problem and suggests different mechanisms to support reliability as part of the MAC protocol. Analytical expressions to this problem are given to qualify the performance of the modified network
more » ... . These expressions are confirmed by numerical result. While the suggested reliability mechanisms introduce some signaling overhead, the results show that the performance is yet improved.
doi:10.1109/vtcfall.2012.6399118 dblp:conf/vtc/PahlavaniPHHRF12 fatcat:pnsxliiumbeztnuksoz2zaq3vu