A Joint Network Coding and Scheduling Algorithm in Wireless Network
Zhaolong Ning, Koji Okamura, Chengming Li · Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network · 2013
Network coding (NC) is an emerging technique of packet forwarding that encodes packets at relay node in order to increase network throughput. It is understood that the performance of NC is strongly dependent on the physical layer as well as the MAC layer, and greedy coding method may in fact reduce the network throughput owing to the reduction in the spatial reuse. In this paper, we propose a NC-aware scheduling method combining link aggregation to improve the network throughput by considering the interplay between NC and spatial reuse. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed link aggregation method compared with the unicast transmission model.