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Network coding (NC) features a new perspective for leveraging network performances as more efficient resources utilization could be achieved. In recent years, the application of NC to the realms of failure recovery in optical networks has been receiving growing attention and indeed, combining the near-instantaneous recovery of dedicated protection and improved capacity efficiency enabled by NC constitutes...
Network coding is a new communication paradigm which allows network nodes not only to forward packets but also to combine them together to reduce the number of transmissions. COPE has been the first network coding scheme designed for unicast traffic in wireless networks. COPE-based network coding-aware routing optimization has been proposed to improve network performances. However, it is interesting...
Traditional routing metrics designed for wireless networks are application-agnostic. In this paper, we consider a wireless network where the application flows consist of video traffic. From a user perspective, reducing the level of video distortion is critical. We ask the question “Should the routing policies change if the end-to-end video distortion is to be minimized?” Popular link-quality-based...
Due to the explosive growth of multimedia content (especially videos) over the Internet, content-centric networking (CCN) is proposed to remit the problems of modern bandwidth-intensive Internet usage patterns. Additionally, the current streaming media coding is designed for video service for IP networks. However, there are few researches who concentrate on efficient streaming media coding for the...
The Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is characterized with long delay, high bit-error rate, intermittent connectivity and frequent partitions. Due to this, network coding is introduced to improve its transmission performance significantly. Numerous DTN routing algorithms based on network coding have been developed. However, they are susceptible to various malicious attacks. In this paper, we...
Based on the traditional theory and algorithms of vehicle routing problem, the multi-objective VRPSDP mathematical model is established in considering the minimum of the number of vehicles and the transportation costs. The genetic algorithm is used as the solving algorithm of the model in this paper, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the chromosomes in the iterative process, the chromosome encoding...
Network coding (NC) and erasure coding (EC) share a common principle of encoding incoming data packets at network intermediate nodes so that destination nodes can reconstruct the original data packets using a sufficient number of encoded data packets collected at the destinations. While NC in general reduces the number of packets sent through the network, EC introduces redundancy into the packet streams...
Sensor networks consist of small motes attached with sensors to measure ambient parameters like temperature, humidity and light. As these motes are unreliable due to wireless link quality and also the data measuring sensors cannot be calibrated accurately for a given applications need. The unique data fusion needs are that parameter being measured is distributed across the network and needs to be...
Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is an important and well-known combinatorial optimization problem encountered in many transport logistics and distribution systems. The VRP has several variants depending on tasks performed and on some restrictions, such as time windows, multiple vehicles, backhauls, simultaneous delivery and pick-up, etc. In this paper, we consider vehicle routing problem with simultaneous...
Scalable video can be used to provide video streaming reliably to an heterogeneous set of receivers with different subscription levels. However, the performance of such schemes can be highly affected by scheduling constraints and unreliable feedback. Network coding, on the other hand, has been shown to reduce scheduling and prioritization problems and to perform well in wireless scenarios with perfect...
In this paper, we consider the optimization of multi-path opportunistic routing and congestion control in wireless mesh networks with intra-session network coding. We model this as a network utility maximization problem and we design a simple distributed solution that can be obtained by solving the dual problem. This formulation provides useful insight into the complex cross-layer interaction between...
The selection of routes is an important issue in wireless networks when network coding is used. Existing researches formulated network-coding-aware routing as a linear optimization program. However, deploying such method in real wireless networks is impractical. To solve this issue, in this paper, a practical network-coding-aware routing protocol is proposed for unicast sessions in wireless networks...
In this paper, a multi-depot vehicle routing problem with weight-related cost (MDVRPWRC) is discussed. It is an extension of the classical multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP) by treating the vehicle load, i.e. the total weight of freight in a vehicle, as a variable in the objective of model. The corresponding costs incurred by the vehicle load are considered in the objective function when...
In this paper, we propose a new analytical model for stable throughput evaluation of wireless network coding. In this new approach we consider the arrival and departure rates in and from the wireless nodes, respectively, in steady state. Our analytical model is founded on a multi-class open queueing network. In this model, we include two basic processes of network coding, i.e., packets combination...
To overcome the common defects of early convergence in the existing genetic algorithm, an improved genetic algorithm with new crossover operator and new crossover strategy was presented for the solution to the vehicle routing problem with soft time window (VRPTW). Experiments show that the improved genetic algorithm can dramatically reduce the number of same or similar chromosomes, and increase the...
The distribution of finished products from depots to customers is a practical and challenging problem in logistics management. Better routing and scheduling decisions can result in higher level of customer satisfaction. The distribution problem is generally formulated as the vehicle routing problem (VRP). Nevertheless, there is a rigid assumption that there is only one depot. In cases, for instance,...
Networks on chips (NoCs) provide a mechanism for handling complex communications in the next generation of integrated circuits. At the same time, lower yield in nano-technology, makes self repair communication channels a necessity in design of digital systems. This paper proposes a reliable NoC architecture based on specific application mapped onto an NoC. This architecture is capable of recovering...
Opportunistic routing (OR) schemes, such as ExOR, have been shown to provide significant throughput gains over traditional best-path routing schemes for wireless networks. Though the performance of OR schemes depend on the bit-rate, they currently use a fixed rate for transmitting packets. While several schemes have been proposed for selecting bit-rate for unicast transmission to a single receiver,...
Wireless network coding has been shown to reduce the number of transmissions by exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. Multiple packets may be encoded into a single packet when their respective next hops have enough information to decode them. Previous research has shown that packets belonging to different flows may be encoded (interflow coding) when they are passing through a common...
In this work we investigate the effects of multiple access interference (MAI) and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical code division multiplexing (OCDM) lightpaths. These paths are determined by the data encoding with non-coherent optical orthogonal codes (OOC), using a sequence inversion keying (SIK) optical correlator system. Our results show the impact of MAI effects and PMD constraint...
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