Paper Info
Title
Caterpillar RLNC With Feedback (CRLNC-FB): Reducing Delay in Selective Repeat ARQ Through Coding.
Abstract
Wireless networks typically employ some form of forward error correction (FEC) coding and some automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol to ensure reliable data transmission over lossy channels. We propose to integrate FEC and ARQ in the context of random linear network coding (RLNC). In particular, we develop Caterpillar RLNC with feedback (CRLNC-FB), an RLNC approach with a finite sliding packet transmission window in conjunction with feedback-based selective repeat ARQ. CRLNC-FB employs a novel RLNC decoding method based on a band-form of Gaussian elimination. In response to lost packets, CRLNC-FB retransmits lost packets in systematic (uncoded) form to aid fast in-order packet delivery at the receiver. Extensive performance evaluations indicate that CRLNC-FB gives higher throughput-delay performance than the preceding RLNC approaches with feedback. In particular, CRLNC-FB with its sliding window achieves lower delays than block-based RLNC. Also, the retransmission of uncoded source packets in CRLNC-FB contributes to a significantly higher throughput-delay performance than loss recovery through coded packets interspersed among future source packets at a prescribed code rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2865137
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol,random linear network coding (RLNC),reliable data transfer,packet delay,throughput-delay tradeoff
Linear network coding,Forward error correction,Sliding window protocol,Code rate,Computer science,Retransmission,Network packet,Selective Repeat ARQ,Computer network,Automatic repeat request
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Gabriel141.78
simon wunderlich2193.43
Sreekrishna Pandi341.44
Frank H. P. Fitzek4706123.89
Martin Reisslein51661114.91