Network Coding for Mobile Clouds
Frank H. P. Fitzek, Marcos D. Katz · 2013
This chapter introduces the main concept of network coding and underlines the importance of this disruptive key technology for mobile clouds. With reference to the previous chapters, the advantage of network coding is shown for efficient data dissemination in meshed networks, data storage and security. The aim of this chapter is to make the reader familiar with network coding concepts and principles without going through the details of the full theory behind it. This approach is enough to show the reader the excellent match between mobile clouds’ architecture and associated information flow on the one hand, and network coding efficiency across these distributed nodes on the other hand.