Special Session on Network Coding for Wireless Networks
Wireless networks have been designed using the wired network as the blueprint. However, the wireless medium is fundamentally different from wired networks in the following ways. First, Communications over wireless channels are error-prone and unpredictable due to fading, mobility, and intermittent connectivity. Moreover, transmissions in wireless networks are majorly broadcast and tend to interfere with each other. In addition, security poses new challenges in wireless networks, where both passive and active attacks have quite different premises than in wired networks. As such, the wired network design is not suitable for wireless networks.
The term of network coding was
first coined in 2000 by Ahlswede et al. The core notation of network coding is to allow and
encourage mixing of data at intermediate nodes. Recent work indicates that
network coding can improve the throughput, reliability, fairness, and security
of wireless networks by exploiting the intrinsic characteristics of wireless
networks, such as data redundancy, broadcast, and spatial diversity. Its
potential benefits have spurred a lot of interest in the multimedia community.
Nevertheless, these opportunities require the rethinking of the
The aim of this special session is to foster interactions among researchers from industry and academia on all aspects of network coding for wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Network coding theory
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Applications of network coding in WLAN, WMAN, WiMax, etc.
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Applications of network coding in cognitive radio networks
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Applications of Network coding in wireless ad Hoc network
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Applications of Network coding in wireless sensor networks
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Network coding for multimedia streaming
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Multi-path network coding
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Network coding and interference cancellation
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Network coding at the MAC layer
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Network coding and routing
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Error-correcting network coding in wireless networks
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Delay-aware and prioritized network coding
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Network coding for network robustness
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Network coding for network security
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Physical layer network coding
· Practical network coding
Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or
position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an
early stage of development or share future vision. All submissions should
describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review
by another conference or journal. Manuscripts should not exceed five (5) pages
in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the paper through EDAS.
Organizers:
Zhenguo Gao,
Yingtao Jiang,
Mei Yang,