On the applicability of network coding in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Thiemo Voigt;Utz Roedig;Olaf Landsiedel;Kasun Samarasinghe;Mahesh Bogadi Shankar Prasad

  • Affiliations:
  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Kista, Sweden;Lancaster University, Great Britain;Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden;Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Kista, Sweden;Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Kista, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGBED Review - Special Issue on the 3rd International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET 2012)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Network coding is a novel concept for improving network capacity. This additional capacity may be used to increase throughput or reliability. Also in wireless networks, network coding has been proposed as a method for improving communication. We present our experience from two studies of applying network coding in realistic wireless sensor networks scenarios. As we show, network coding is not as useful in practical deployments as earlier theoretical work suggested. We discuss limitations and future opportunities for network coding in sensor networks.