Optimal Layered Multicast with Network Coding: Mathematical Model and Empirical Studies

Abstract--Recent advances in network coding research dramatically changed the underlying structure of optimal multicast routing algorithms and made them efficiently computable. While most such algorithm design assume a single file/layer being multicast, layered coding introduces new challenges into the paradigm due to its cumulative decoding nature. Layered coding is designed to handle heterogeneity in receiver capacities, and a node may decode layer k only if it successfully receives all layers

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: MASCOTS
• Authors: Ajay Gopinathan, Zongpeng Li
• Keywords: Cumulative Decoding Nature, MASCOTS 2008, Modeling And Simulation, Network Coding Research, Optimal Multicast Routing