Multipath wireless network coding: A population game perspective

Vinith Reddy, Srinivas Shakkottai, Alex Sprintson, Natarajan Gautam

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24 Scopus citations

Abstract

We consider wireless networks in which multiple paths are available between each source and destination. We allow each source to split traffic among all of its available paths, and ask the question: how do we attain the lowest possible number of transmissions per unit time to support a given traffic matrix? Traffic bound in opposite directions over two wireless hops can utilize the "reverse carpooling" advantage of network coding in order to decrease the number of transmissions used. We call such coded hops as "hyper-links". With the reverse carpooling technique longer paths might be cheaper than shorter ones. However, there is a prisoners dilemma type situation among sources - the network coding advantage is realized only if there is traffic in both directions of a shared path. We develop a two-level distributed control scheme that decouples user choices from each other by declaring a hyper-link capacity, allowing sources to split their traffic selfishly in a distributed fashion, and then changing the hyper-link capacity based on user actions. We show that such a controller is stable, and verify our analytical insights by simulation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE INFOCOM 2010 - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Mar 14 2010Mar 19 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Other

OtherIEEE INFOCOM 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period3/14/103/19/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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