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Cross-Layer Rate Control, Routing and Scheduling Design for Multicast with Network Coding in Ad Hoc Networks

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Network coding is a powerful coding technique that has been proved to be very effective in achieving the maximum multicast capacity. It is especially suited for new emerging networks such as ad-hoc and sensor networks. In this paper, we develop a distributed rate control algorithm for multicast session in ad hoc networks. With random network coding, the algorithm can be implemented in a distributed manner, and work at transport layer to adjust source rates and at network layer to carry out network coding. The scheduling element of our algorithm is a dynamic scheduling policy. The stability of the resulted system is established, and simulation results are provided to support our conclusions.

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This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation of P. R. China under Grant (no. 60773074) and by the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (no. 4082020). Meanwhile, is supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of P. R. China under Agreements (no. 2007AA01Z213) and (no. 2009AA01Z209).

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    Xu-Na Miao, Xian-Wei Zhou & Lin Lin

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Miao, XN., Zhou, XW. & Lin, L. Cross-Layer Rate Control, Routing and Scheduling Design for Multicast with Network Coding in Ad Hoc Networks. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 18, 80–87 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-011-0138-0

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