中国邮电高校学报(英文) ›› 2010, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 72-79.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(09)60510-0

• Networks • 上一篇    下一篇

Scalable broadcast with network coding in heterogeneous networks

司菁菁1,蔡安妮2,庄伯金2   

  1. 1. 北京邮电大学电信学院;燕山大学信息学院
    2. 北京邮电大学
  • 收稿日期:2009-07-15 修回日期:2010-07-14 出版日期:2010-10-30 发布日期:2010-10-31
  • 通讯作者: 司菁菁 E-mail:sjj@ysu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:

    国家级.国家自然科学基金

Scalable broadcast with network coding in heterogeneous networks

  1. School of Information Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
  • Received:2009-07-15 Revised:2010-07-14 Online:2010-10-30 Published:2010-10-31

摘要:

This article studies the scalable broadcast scheme realized with the joint application of layered source coding, unequal error protection (UEP) and random network coding from the theoretical point of view. The success probability for any non-source node in a heterogeneous network to recover the most important layers of the source data is deduced. This probability proves that in this broadcast scheme every non-source node with enough capacity can always recover the source data partially or entirely as long as the finite field size is sufficiently large. Furthermore, a special construction for the local encoding kernel at the source node is proposed. With this special construction, an increased success probability for partial decoding at any non-source node is achieved, i.e., the partial decodability offered by the scalable broadcast scheme is improved.

关键词:

network coding, linear broadcast, layered source coding, UEP

Abstract:

This article studies the scalable broadcast scheme realized with the joint application of layered source coding, unequal error protection (UEP) and random network coding from the theoretical point of view. The success probability for any non-source node in a heterogeneous network to recover the most important layers of the source data is deduced. This probability proves that in this broadcast scheme every non-source node with enough capacity can always recover the source data partially or entirely as long as the finite field size is sufficiently large. Furthermore, a special construction for the local encoding kernel at the source node is proposed. With this special construction, an increased success probability for partial decoding at any non-source node is achieved, i.e., the partial decodability offered by the scalable broadcast scheme is improved.

Key words:

network coding, linear broadcast, layered source coding, UEP