An Equivalence Between Network Coding and Index Coding

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2478-2487

  Effros, Michelle ^a   El Rouayheb, Salim ^b   Langberg, Michael ^c,d  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo ^*  (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Communication networks; network coding

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CAPACITY REGIONS; CO-LOCATED; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; INDEX CODING; NONLINEAR CODES;

NETWORK CODING;

EID: 84928599979     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2015.2414926     Document Type: Article

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