C and M: A New Network Coding Scheme for Wireless Networks

This paper proposes C&M, a novel network coding scheme to deal with both inter-flow and intra-flow traffic in wireless networks. Prior work on wireless network coding design belongs to either inter-flow network coding or intra-flow network coding. C&M attempts to combine advantages of both network coding approaches to develop a more efficient network coding scheme. Based on COPE, C&M allows each node to make use of intra-flow network coding such as MORE to improve the transmission reliability in a lossy environment, consequently obtaining higher throughput. Moreover, we propose the multiple-path transmitting scheme to increase the throughput of wireless networks with low link delivery probability further. Finally, we provide our view on how to integrate network coding into network stack and discuss some potential benefits of C&M.