Title
Whether and Where to Code in the Wireless Packet Erasure Relay Channel.
Abstract
The throughput benefits of random linear network codes have been studied extensively for wirelined and wireless erasure networks. It is often assumed that all nodes within a network perform coding operations. In energy-constrained systems, however, coding subgraphs should be chosen to control the number of coding nodes while maintaining throughput. In this paper, we explore the strategic use of network coding in the wireless packet erasure relay channel according to both throughput and energy metrics. In the relay channel, a single source communicates to a single sink through the aid of a halfduplex relay. The fluid flow model is used to describe the case where both the source and the relay are coding, and Markov chain models are proposed to describe packet evolution if only the source or only the relay is coding. In addition to transmission energy, we take into account coding and reception energies. We show that coding at the relay alone while operating in a rateless fashion is neither throughput nor energy efficient. Given a set of system parameters, our analysis determines the optimal amount of time the relay should participate in the transmission, and where coding should be performed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/JSAC.2013.130803
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Relays,Throughput,Network coding,Encoding,Wireless communication,Markov processes,Wireless sensor networks
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
0733-8716
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaomeng Shi1719.19
Muriel Médard26828599.31
Daniel Enrique Lucani321718.06