Network coding: ABC based COPE in wireless sensor and Mesh network

Network Coding is one of the important concepts which make wireless sensor and mesh network more efficient than the traditional one without NC technique. It encodes multiple packets into a single packet and transmits same in a single transmission cycle. COPE is one of the implementation presented by research community for network coding in wireless sensor network. In COPE, incoming packets stored in virtual queues in respective buffer and packets later on fetch in FIFO order for opportunistic coding. The researchers made several attempts to improve the performance of COPE by adopting various buffer management techniques. The COPE can give considerable coding gain in high traffic networks as per its frame work. In this paper, we are proposing conceptual view of Artificial Bee Colony approach (ABC) to increase the efficiency of COPE in Wireless Mesh networks and Sensor Networks, Wireless mesh networks are high traffic and Sensor Networks are densely deployed and data centric which can more suitable for network coding while transmitting the data packets from sensor to sink node via base station. ABC is a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm based on collective behavior of decentralized and self organizing systems naturally or artificially.