Title
Improving Reliable Transmission Throughput with Systematic Random Code
Abstract
Rateless erasure code (REC) is an erasure code, where the encoder generates a potentially infinite number of encoded symbols and the original message can be reconstructed from a sufficient number of correctly received packets. Many REC-based transmission protocols have been proposed for improving network throughput in lossy channel. However, state-of-the-art RECs (such as LT code and Raptor code) are not efficient for transmitting short messages. Recent studies suggest that network traffic is characterised by bursts of short messages and thus existing transmission protocols do not benefit from the gains of deploying REC. In this paper, we propose an REC-based transmission protocol, namely UDP-RC, which integrates the simplicity of UDP and strength of systematic Random code suited to network traffic with short messages. It attains high throughput by transmitting short messages reliably with lower overheads over lossy channel. We experimentally show that UDP-RC achieves at least 50% higher throughput and maintains more stable throughput compared to TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDT (UDP Data transfer) protocol under both ideal and lossy channel conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/LCN.2016.87
2016 IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
REC,TCP,network coding
Data transmission,Computer science,Network packet,Communication channel,Computer network,Transmission Control Protocol,Raptor code,Encoder,Throughput,Erasure code
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0742-1303
978-1-5090-2055-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zan-Kai Chong152.16
Hiroyuki Ohsaki225963.46
Cheng-Kuan Bryan Ng300.34
Bok-Min Goi449862.02
Hong Tat Ewe5559.64
Sin-Ran Chong600.34