Approximate decoding approaches for network coded correlated data

  • Authors:

  • Hyunggon Park;Nikolaos Thomos;Pascal Frossard

  • Affiliations:

  • Multimedia Communications and Networking Laboratory, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;Signal Processing Lab. (LTS4), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland and Communication and Distributed Systems laboratory (CDS), University of Bern, Bern ...;Signal Processing Lab. (LTS4), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper considers a framework where data from correlated sources are transmitted with the help of network coding in ad hoc network topologies. The correlated data are encoded independently at sensors and network coding is employed in the intermediate nodes in order to improve the data delivery performance. In such settings, we focus on the problem of reconstructing the sources at decoder when perfect decoding is not possible due to losses or bandwidth variations. We show that the source data similarity can be used at decoder to permit decoding based on a novel and simple approximate decoding scheme. We analyze the influence of the network coding parameters and in particular the size of finite coding fields on the decoding performance. We further determine the optimal field size that maximizes the expected decoding performance as a trade-off between information loss incurred by limiting the resolution of the source data and the error probability in the reconstructed data. Moreover, we show that the performance of the approximate decoding improves when the accuracy of the source model increases even with simple approximate decoding techniques. We provide illustrative examples showing how the proposed algorithm can be deployed in sensor networks and distributed imaging applications.