Design and Reliability Performance Evaluation of Network Coding Schemes for Lossy Wireless Networks

Wireless communication between devices can be lossy in the sense that packet transmissions via a wireless link may fail (so that the packet is lost) due to a number of factors channel fading, interference or mobility of devices. In some scenarios, the lossy characteristic of wireless communication can be random, and thus better characterised from a stochastic perspective. This thesis investigates lossy wireless networks, which are wireless communication networks consisting of lossy wireless links, where the packet transmission via a lossy wireless link is successful with a certain value of probability. In particular, this thesis analyses all-to-all broadcast in lossy wireless networks, where every node has a native packet to transmit to all other nodes in the network. A major challenge of all-to-all broadcast in lossy wireless networks is the reliability, which is defined as the probability that every node in the network successfully obtains a copy of the native packets of all other nodes. The reliability of all-to-all broadcast in lossy wireless networks can be improved by network coding techniques. In this thesis, two novel network coding schemes are proposed: 1. the neighbour network coding scheme and 2. the random neighbour network coding scheme. In the two proposed network coding schemes, a node may perform a bit-wise exclusive or (XOR) operation to combine the native packet of itself and the native packet of its neighbour, called the coding neighbour, into an XOR coded packet. By broadcasting the XOR coded packet to other nodes, the reliability of all-to-all broadcast can be improved compared with the corresponding non-coded network wherein a node only broadcasts its native packet. In the first proposed scheme, the coding neighbour is pre-designated; while in the second proposed

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