Reliable communications over wireless mesh networks with inter and intra-flow network coding
David Gómez, Eduardo Rodríguez, Ramón Agüero, Luı́s Muñoz · 2014
In this work we present a flexible Network Coding (NC) module integrated within the ns-3 framework. We have exploited it to implement an inter-flow coding protocol, in which intermediate nodes (routers) combine packets belonging to different flows, as well as an intra-flow coding scheme, in which both the source and intermediate nodes linearly code packets of the same flow. We assess the performance of both approaches to provide reliable communication services over wireless mesh networks, considering that links are prone to cause packet drops, comparing their behavior with the one exhibited by legacy TCP.