Fair coding for inter-session network coding in wireless mesh networks Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Copyright 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Because of the broadcast and overhearing capability of wireless networks, network coding can greatly improve throughput in wireless networks. However, our investigation of existing inter-session network coding protocols found that the short-term unfairness that existed in 802.11-based medium access control (MAC) protocols actually decreases the coding opportunity, which in turn compromises the throughput gain of network coding. To alleviate the negative impact of this unfairness, we propose a coding-aware cross-layer heuristic approach to optimize the coordination of network coding and MAC layer protocol, named FairCoding, which can significantly increase coding opportunities for inter-session network coding through a fair short-term traffic allocation for different coding flows. Experiment evaluation shows that the proposed mechanism can bring more coding opportunities and improve the total throughput of wireless mesh networks by up to 20%, compared with the coding mechanism, without considering the negative impact of the short-term unfairness. Copyright 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

published proceedings

  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING

author list (cited authors)

  • Yang, X., Wang, W., Lu, M., Wang, J., & Zhang, X. i.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Yang, Xiang||Wang, Weiping||Lu, Mingming||Wang, Jianxin||Zhang, Xi

publication date

  • October 2016

publisher