Providing reliable services over wireless networks using a low overhead random linear coding scheme

In this work, we propose a novel intra-flow network coding solution, which is based on the combination of a low overhead Random Linear Coding (RLC) scheme and UDP, to offer a reliable communication service. In the initial protocol specification, the required overhead could be rather large and this h...

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Autores: Garrido Ortiz, Pablo, Gómez Fernández, David, Lanza Calderón, Jorge|||0000-0002-9586-1334, Serrat Fernandez, Joan, Agüero Calvo, Ramón||| 0000-0002-9620-3990
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositório:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/12499
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/12499
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Random linear coding
Wireless networks
IEEE 802.11
Protocol overhead
Packets erasure channels
Load balance control
Descrição
Resumo:In this work, we propose a novel intra-flow network coding solution, which is based on the combination of a low overhead Random Linear Coding (RLC) scheme and UDP, to offer a reliable communication service. In the initial protocol specification, the required overhead could be rather large and this had an impact over the observed performance. We therefore include an improvement to reduce such overhead, by decreasing the header length. We describe an analytical model that can be used to assess the performance of the proposed scheme. We also use an implementation within the ns-3 framework to assess the correctness of this model and to broaden the analysis, considering different performance indicators and more complex network topologies. In all cases, the proposed solution clearly outperforms a more traditional approach, in which the TCP protocol is used as a means to offer a reliable communication service.