A Joint Network Coding and Scheduling Algorithm in Wireless Network

Network coding (NC) is an emerging technique of packet forwarding thatencodes packets at relay node in order to increase network throughput. It is understoodthat the performance of NC is strongly dependent on the physical layer as well as theMAC layer, and greedy coding method may in fact reduce the network throughputowing to the reduction in the spatial reuse. In this paper, we propose a NC-awarescheduling method combining link aggregation to improve the network throughput byconsidering the interplay between NC and spatial reuse. Simulation resultsdemonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed link aggregation method compared withthe unicast transmission model