Hardware Prototyping of Network Coding in HDL

摘要

This paper is on hardware prototyping of a multi-source multicast network based on random linear network coding (RLNC). There are three kinds of nodes that perform encoding, forwarding, and decoding, respectively. Each node is implemented over a NetFPGA card inside a PC. The prototype provides a realistic test bed for evaluating the hardware/time complexities of network coding applications.