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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Delay-Sensitive Retransmission Method Based on Network Coding in Wireless LANs

Yosuke TANIGAWA, Jong-Ok KIM, Hideki TODE

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Recently, network coding (NC) has been popularly applied to wireless networks in order to improve scarce wireless capacity. In wireless LANs, NC can be applied to packet retransmission, and a base station can simultaneously retransmit multiple packets destined to different wireless stations by a single retransmission trial. On the other hand, NC creates additional packet delay at both base station and wireless stations, and hence, packet transfer delay may increase seriously. However, existing NC-based retransmission methods do not consider this additional delay explicitly. In addition, when the number of flows is small, NC exhibits less benefit because the chances of NC-based retransmission are highly reduced. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel NC-based retransmission method in order to improve packet transfer delay and jitter of received packets. Moreover, to achieve further improvement of delay, jitter and retransmission efficiency even when there exist a small number of traffic flows, we propose a retransmission method in which NC-based retransmission cooperates with the typical ARQ method. We overcome the disadvantage of NC-based retransmission by combining with ARQ cooperatively. Finally, we show the effectiveness of the proposed methods by extensive computer simulation.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E93-B No.12 pp.3345-3353
Publication Date
2010/12/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E93.B.3345
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Wireless Distributed Networks)
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