A Network Coding Based Flow and Congestion Control Method

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A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen.

Researchers

Muriel Medard / Szymon Jakubczak / Joao Francisco Barros / Devavrat Shah / Jay Sundararajan / Michael Mitzenmacher

Departments: Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Technology Areas: Communication Systems: Optical, Wireless / Computer Science: Networking & Signals
Impact Areas: Connected World

  • method and apparatus providing network coding based flow control
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