Network Coding Theory: Single Sources
Raymond W. Yeung, Shuo Li, Ning Cai, Zhen Zhang · Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory · 2005
Store-and-forward had been the predominant technique for transmitting information through a network until its optimality was refuted by network coding theory. Network coding offers a new paradigm for network communications and has generated abundant research interest in information and coding theory, networking, switching, wireless communications, cryptography, computer science, operations research, and matrix theory.