On Accessing Heterogeneous Data Items Using Network Coding in Wireless Broadcast

摘要

Network coding has become increasingly popular in time efficient data dissemination due to its inherent nature of broadcasting multiple data items in encoded form through a single broadcast. However, not much attention has been put forth on the efficiency of network coding when accessed data items' sizes can vary. In this work, we have investigated that when clients' accessed data items are of different sizes, network coding based broadcast can no longer maintain its superiority over traditional broadcast. We have found the reason of this performance degradation of coding based broadcast and propose an efficient dynamic threshold based coding approach. The proposed approach can maintain its performance superiority over both traditional broadcast approach and conventional coding based approach under a range of different size accessed data items. Simulation results support our claim.