A Hierarchical Multicast Scheme for Heterogeneous Receivers
Jing Jing Si · Advanced materials research · 2010
We investigate inter-session network coding for networks with heterogeneous receivers in this paper. Based on layered source coding, we define the hierarchical inter-layer random network codes, and propose a hierarchical multicast scheme. Moreover, we compare our hierarchical multicast scheme with the layered multicast schemes in theory and with simulations. Simulation results show that our hierarchical multicast scheme can achieve the optimal aggregate throughput for some networks where the layered multicast schemes are suboptimal.