Applying Network Coding to Cyclic Networks

Abstract

This work addresses the application of network coding on cyclic networks. Cycles and delay are indispensable factors when designing and implementing data networks. However, most attention in the literature of network coding has been on acyclic networks. Hence, in order to bridge the gap of network coding and the practical networks, Convolutional Network Coding (CNC) with delay as an essential part was proposed for network coding on cyclic networks.