A survey on network tomography with network coding

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1981-1995

  Qin, Peng ^a   Dai, Bin ^a   Huang, Benxiong ^a   Xu, Guan ^a   Wu, Kui ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bottleneck discovery; failure localization; link delay inference; link loss estimation; network coding; Network tomography; topology recovery

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPLEX NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

BOTTLENECK DISCOVERY; FUTURE TRENDS; INTERNAL NETWORK; LINK DELAY; LINK LOSS; NETWORK TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOLOGY ESTIMATION;

NETWORK CODING;

EID: 84913586225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2320096     Document Type: Article

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