Title
Weighted partial network coding and its applications in wireless mesh networks.
Abstract
Network coding (NC) has showed to be beneficial to improve transmission performance in wireless mesh networks. Random linear coding is usually applied as the default coding schema. However, random linear coding causes significant decoding delay and jitter at receiver. Further, current NC does not support weight assignment to original packets, which is however indispensable for popular applications such as quality of service control and multipath media streaming in wireless mesh networks. Partial network coding (PNC) can largely reduce decoding delay and receiving fluctuation while keeping the benefit of NC. However, PNC does not support weight-based data replacement and weight assignment to original packets. In this work, we propose weighted partial network coding (WPNC), which is a generalized coding schema of PNC. WPNC inherits all merits of PNC and part of NC. With WPNC, both decoding delay and receiving fluctuation will be reduced as observed in PNC. Also, WPNC is quite suitable for those applications that require weight assignment to original packets. After providing the whole framework of WPNC and thorough theoretical analysis to its performance, we have demonstrated how WPNC can be integrated with quality of service control and multipath routing supported media streaming in wireless mesh networks. Performance of WPNC is inter-validated by both theoretical analysis and numeric evaluations. Copyright (c) 2011 John; Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1002/wcm.1180
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless mesh networks (WMNs),partialnetwork coding (PNC),weight assignment,weighted partial network coding(WPNC)
Linear network coding,Multipath propagation,Multipath routing,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Quality of service,Coding (social sciences),Wireless mesh network,Decoding methods
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13.0
14.0
1530-8669
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fajun Chen141.46
Yijie Wang223942.22
Dan Wang316913.41
Jiangchuan Liu44340310.86