Energy efficient, context-aware cache coding for mobile information-centric networks
Joshua Joy, Yu-Ting Yu, Mário Gerla, Ashish Gehani, Hasnain Lakhani, Minyoung Kim · 2016
In a mobile, intermittently connected information-centric network (ICN), users download files either from the original source or from caches assembled during previous downloads. Network coding has helped to increase download robustness and overcome "missing coupon" delays. Prior work has also shown that network coding depletes energy resources much faster than no coding. Our contribution here is to make coding more efficient, and to detect when it is not necessary, in order to prolong the life of mobile handhelds.