Network Coding Theory: Single Sources

Author(s): Raymond W. Yeung;Shuo-Yen Robert Li;Ning Cai;Zhen Zhang

Source:
    Journal:Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory
    ISSN Print:1567-2190,  ISSN Online:1567-2328
    Publisher:Now Publishers
    Volume 2 Number 4,

Document Type: Article
Pages: 89 (241-329)
DOI: 10.1561/0100000007I

Abstract: Store-and-forward had been the predominant technique for transmitting information through a network until its optimality was refuted by network coding theory. Network coding offers a new paradigm for network communications and has generated abundant research interest in information and coding theory, networking, switching, wireless communications, cryptography, computer science, operations research, and matrix theory.

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