{"title":"Improving Multicast Networks Throughput via Joint Multicast Beamforming and Rate Aware Instantly Decodable Network Coding","authors":"Zhonghui Mei","doi":"10.1109/LCOMM.2025.3543587","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The throughput of multicast networks depends not only on the transmission rate, but also on the number of receivers simultaneously served by the transmit signal. In this letter, we develop a cross-layer approach based on joint multicast beamforming and rate aware instantly decodable network coding (J-MB-RA-IDNC), where instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) is employed at the network layer to increase the number of receivers to be served simultaneously, multicast beamforming is used at the physical layer to direct the beam toward the targeted receivers of the selected rate aware IDNC (RA-IDNC) schedule to improve the transmission rate. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":13197,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Letters","volume":"29 4","pages":"794-798"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Communications Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10892239/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"TELECOMMUNICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The throughput of multicast networks depends not only on the transmission rate, but also on the number of receivers simultaneously served by the transmit signal. In this letter, we develop a cross-layer approach based on joint multicast beamforming and rate aware instantly decodable network coding (J-MB-RA-IDNC), where instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) is employed at the network layer to increase the number of receivers to be served simultaneously, multicast beamforming is used at the physical layer to direct the beam toward the targeted receivers of the selected rate aware IDNC (RA-IDNC) schedule to improve the transmission rate. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme.
期刊介绍:
The IEEE Communications Letters publishes short papers in a rapid publication cycle on advances in the state-of-the-art of communication over different media and channels including wire, underground, waveguide, optical fiber, and storage channels. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, and analyses) and practical contributions (including system experiments and prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. This journal focuses on the physical layer and the link layer of communication systems.