XORs in the air: Practical wireless network coding

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 497-510

  Katti, Sachin ^a   Rahul, Hariharan ^a   Hu, Wenjun ^b   Katabi, Dina ^a   Medard, Muriel ^a   Crowcroft, Jon ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Network coding; Performance; Theory; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MIXING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PAPER; PROGRAMMING THEORY; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

(E ,2E) THEORY; CONGESTION LEVELS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MULTICAST TRAFFIC; NETWORK CODING; NETWORK STACKS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; P RIOR WORK; PRACTICAL ISSUES; TEST BEDS; TRAFFIC PATTERNS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOL (TCP); UNICAST TRAFFIC; WIRELESS MESH NETWORK (WMN);

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 45749150357     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2008.923722     Document Type: Article

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