Journal of Xidian University ›› 2016, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 17-22+146.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2016.04.004

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Low-delay data transmission algorithm for coding-aware routing

LU Cunbo;XIAO Song;QUAN Lei;XUE Xiao   

  1. (State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2015-05-18 Online:2016-08-20 Published:2016-10-12

Abstract:

It is significant to reduce packet delivery delay for real-time applications in a wireless network. Existing coding aware routing algorithms use the opportunistic coding scheme in the packet coding algorithm. They never delay packets to wait for the arrival of a future coding opportunity which results in the degradation of the contribution of network coding to delay performance. To overcome the above problem, for coding-aware routing, this paper presents a low-delay data transmission algorithm based buffer management. In the coding node, this algorithm decides packets according to the queue-length based threshold policy instead of the regular opportunistic coding policy as used in existing coding-aware routing algorithms. This algorithm introduces the network delay training phase before the data transmission phase to make the coding node obtain the optimal threshold for the queue-length based threshold policy. Simulation results show that our algorithm can achieve a lower packet delivery delay, a lower packet loss ratio and a higher throughput than the traditional opportunistic coding policy in network congestion.

Key words: network coding, delay, buffer management, routing