BRN-051030-10

Title

• Practical Network Coding for the BRN
• Assigned to: Stephan Allner

Abstract

• Problem statement.
• What do you want to achieve? What is NOT inside the scope of your work?
• If successful, what contribution will your work make (scientific, technical)?

Literature

List of standard/basic papers a person skilled in the art should have read.

Network Coding in wireless ad-hoc networks

• S. Katti, D. Katabi, Wenjun Hu, and Rahul Hariharan . "The Importance of Being Opportunistic: Practical Network Coding For Wireless Environments", In Proc. 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2005.
• Y. Wu, P. A. Chou, S.-Y. Kung, "Information exchange in wireless networks with network coding and physical-layer broadcast," Microsoft Technical Report, MSR-TR-2004-78, Aug. 2004

Other NC related papers, that may be interesting for other improvements

NC for content distribution of large files

• C. Gkantsidis, P. R. Rodriguez "Network Coding for Large Scale Content Distribution", Microsoft Research Technical Report (MSR-TR-2004-80)
• Anwar Al Hamra, Chadi Barakat, and Thierry Turletti Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks: A Case Study

Energy-efficiant Broadcast/Multicast in wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

List of relevant conferences, standards organizations to follow up with.

For a more complete overview www.networkcoding.info may be of some service.

Competition

• competing technologies, companies/research teams

Personal Knowledge Base

• Description of your work / your approach
• Results so far (reports, experiments downloadable software, ...)

Project Plan: Working Packages

• List of tasks, milestones with deadlines, and deliverables

See Also

For a list of currently available thesis topics see [1]