Network coding as a service

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Contributors

  • Dávid Szabó - , Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Author)
  • Attila Csoma - , Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Author)
  • Péter Megyesi - , Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Author)
  • András Gulyás - , HSNLab., Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Author)
  • Frank H.P. Fitzek - , Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, 5G Lab Germany at TU Dresden (Author)

Abstract

Network Coding (NC) shows great potential in various communication scenarios through changing the packet forwarding principles of current networks. It can improve not only throughput, latency, reliability and security but also alleviates the need of coordination in many cases. However, it is still controversial due to widespread misunderstandings on how to exploit the advantages of it. The aim of the paper is to facilitate the usage of NC by (i) explaining how it can improve the performance of the network (regardless the existence of any butterfly in the network), (ii) showing how Software Defined Networking (SDN) can resolve the crucial problems of deployment and orchestration of NC elements, and (iii) providing a prototype architecture with measurement results on the performance of our network coding capable software router implementation compared by fountain codes.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2-11
Number of pages10
JournalInfocommunications Journal
Volume7
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2015
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161891318

Keywords

Keywords

  • Click, Network Coding, SDN, VNF