Flowcode: multi-site data exchange over wireless ad-hoc networks using network coding

  • Authors:
  • H. T. Kung;Chit-Kwan Lin;Tsung-Han Lin;Stephen J. Tarsa;Dario Vlah

  • Affiliations:
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present FlowCode, a system that exploits network coding at the granularity of traffic flows to facilitate fault-tolerant data exchange in wireless mesh networks. Applications include multi-site data replication in adhoc environments such as mesh networks or wireless data centers. By coupling an operand-driven transmission mechanism with a layered network topology, FlowCode allows us to realize the gains of network coding in application systems without a global scheduler. We analyze the resulting gains through modeling and simulation and validate our results on an outdoor testbed of 12 wireless devices. Results indicate that in high loss environments, FlowCode provides the most significant gains from improved fault tolerance over redundant paths.