Network-coding-based video transmission via WiFi direct in local mobile networks

It will incur high expense by sharing large-scale files (such as video) with others through commercial 4G networks. When the users are located at the same area, the traffic cost could be saved via the technology of WiFi direct. In this paper, a network-coding-based video transmission scheme is proposed for such scenario. In the scheme, when a source user needs to transmit a video to others, it equally splits the original file into multiple segments. When a neighbour connects to it and requests a segment, the user will linearly generate a new segment with all the segments it buffers, and then send the re-encoded segment to other neighbours. After the neighbours receive all or part of the segments, they could become a new source and send data to their own neighbours through the technology of WiFi direct. The results show that compared with the traditional scheme, the transmission scheme based on network coding could be used to complete transmission at a higher rate.