MAC design for analog network coding
Majid Khabbazian, Fabian Kühn, Nancy Ann Lynch, Muriel Médard, Ali ParandehGheibi · 2011
Most medium access control (MAC) mechanisms discard collided packets and consider interference harmful. Recent work on Analog Network Coding (ANC) suggests a different approach, in which multiple interfering transmissions are strategically scheduled. Receiving nodes collect the results of collisions and then use a decoding process, such as ZigZag decoding, to extract the packets involved in the collisions.