NRN

The 1st International ICST Workshop on Network Coding in Wireless Relay Networks (NRN 2011) will be held in conjunction with CHINACOM 2011 in Harbin, China, August 16, 2011. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the CHINACOM conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore, and be indexed by Engineering Index (EI).

Store-and-forward had been the predominant technique for transmitting information through a network until its optimality was refuted by network coding theory. Network coding offers a new paradigm for network communications and has generated abundant research interest in information and coding theory, networking, switching, wireless communications, cryptography, computer science, operations research, and matrix theory etc. Network coding is employed in wireless communication networks whereby distinct data streams need not be kept separate from source to destination. Intermediary nodes in the network are allowed to mix and combine the different received signals prior to their subsequent transmission. It has been shown that this approach may yield a reduction of the amount of data transmitted in the network, leading to a performance improvement together with many advantages and benefits in network robustness, security and efficiency. Over a wide range of potential applications, network coding has thus the potential to provide increased network capacity and efficiency and hence appears to present a new and promising way to advantageously impact the design and operation of modern communications networks.