Adaptive Network Coding Scheme for TCP over Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to develop a network coding scheme to enhance TCP performance in wireless sensor networks. It is well known that TCP performs poorly over wireless links which suffer from packet losses mainly due to the bad channel. To address this problem, it is useful to incorporate network coding into TCP, as network coding can offer significant benefits in terms of throughput, reliability, and robustness. However, the encoding and decoding operations of network coding techniques will bring an additional delay that has a negative effect on applications of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose an adaptive network coding (ANC) scheme which contains two major aspects: the adjustment of the redundancy factor R and the adjustment of the coding window size CW . We dynamically adjust these two parameters depending on the measured packet loss rate, so that the proposed ANC can effectively mask packet losses and reduce the decoding delay of network coding. The performance of our scheme is evaluated by simulations using NS-2 simulator. Compared to other schemes, the ANC not only achieves a good throughput but also has the lowest average delay and the lowest maximum delay in all experimental environments.

Loss-Rate Driven Network Coding for Transmission Control

“…So the performance of TCP/NC has lower than standard TCP when there is only a few segment loss. Later in 2013, Chan et al [3] proposed the adaptive network coded TCP. They focus on adjusting the size of coding window according to the loss-rate.…”

“…In linear network coding, n coded segments can be decode and get the original data by the operations in formula (3). In LRC, we hope the amount of coded segments is minimized.…”