Special issue on network coding

Future networks are expected to depart from traditional routing schemes in order to embrace network coding (NC)-based schemes. These have created a lot of interest both in academia and industry in recent years. Under the NC paradigm, symbols are transported through the network by combining several information streams originating from the same or different sources.This special issue contains thirteen papers, some dealing with design aspects of NC and related concepts (e.g., fountain codes) and some showcasing the application of NC to new services and technologies, such as data multi-view streaming of video or underwater sensor networks. One can find papers that show how NC turns data transmission more robust to packet losses, faster to decode, and more resilient to network changes, such as dynamic topologies and different user options, and how NC can improve the overall throughput. This issue also includes papers showing that NC principles can be used at different layers of the networks (including the physical layer) and how the same fundamental principles can lead to new distributed storage systems. Some of the papers in this issue have a theoretical nature, including code design, while others describe hardware testbeds and prototypes.

[1]  Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody,et al.  Spatially coupled LDPC coding in cooperative wireless networks , 2016, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

[2]  Günes Karabulut-Kurt,et al.  OFDMA-based network-coded cooperation: design and implementation using software-defined radio nodes , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[3]  Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu,et al.  Rate-distortion-optimized multi-view streaming in wireless environment using network coding , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[4]  Sriram Vishwanath,et al.  Cooperative local repair in distributed storage , 2014, 2014 48th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).

[5]  Amaro Barreal,et al.  Efficiently sphere-decodable physical layer transmission schemes for wireless storage networks , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[6]  Geert Leus,et al.  Advanced flooding-based routing protocols for underwater sensor networks , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[7]  Mohamed-Slim Alouini,et al.  Instantly decodable network coding for real-time device-to-device communications , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[8]  Angela Doufexi,et al.  Multicast Wi-Fi Raptor-enabled data carousel design: simulation and practical implementation , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[9]  Parastoo Sadeghi,et al.  Performance characterization and transmission schemes for instantly decodable network coding in wireless broadcast , 2015, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[10]  Bin Tang,et al.  Expander chunked codes , 2013, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

[11]  Ning Ge,et al.  A coalitional graph game framework for network coding-aided D2D communication , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[12]  Steven D. Blostein,et al.  Systematic network coding for two-hop lossy transmissions , 2015, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..

[13]  Parastoo Sadeghi,et al.  Instantly decodable network coding for real-time scalable video broadcast over wireless networks , 2016, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process..