14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

Research Article

Variable Length Sliding Window-based Network Coding Algorithm in MANETs

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2275512,
        author={Baolin Sun and Chao Gui and Ying Song and Kun Xiao and Chengli Huang},
        title={Variable Length Sliding Window-based Network Coding Algorithm in MANETs},
        proceedings={14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
        year={2018},
        month={4},
        keywords={manet; variable length sliding window; network coding},
        doi={10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2275512}
    }
    
  • Baolin Sun
    Chao Gui
    Ying Song
    Kun Xiao
    Chengli Huang
    Year: 2018
    Variable Length Sliding Window-based Network Coding Algorithm in MANETs
    MOBIQUITOUS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2275512
Baolin Sun,*, Chao Gui1, Ying Song1, Kun Xiao1, Chengli Huang2
  • 1: Hubei University of Economics
  • 2: Guangdong Youth Vocational College
*Contact email: blsun@163.com

Abstract

Network coding (NC) consists of intelligently aggregating data packets by means of binary or linear combinations. NC has been considered as one of the possible solutions to the current low throughput, energy consumption, packet loss, non-connectivity and mobility support problems in MANETs. Sliding-window Network Coding is a variation of NC that is an addition to TCP/IP and improves the throughput of TCP on wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a Variable Length Sliding Window-based Network Coding algorithm in MANETs (VLSW-NC). The performance of this VLSW-NC is studied using NS2 and evaluated in terms of the throughput, packet loss probability, and decoding delay when packet is transmitted. The simulations results shows that the VLSW-NC achieved with our proposition can significantly improve the network performance and reliability.