Network Coding on Heterogeneous Multi-Core Processors for Wireless Sensor Networks

While network coding is well known for its efficiency and usefulness in wireless sensor networks, the excessive costs associated with decoding computation and complexity still hinder its adoption into practical use. On the other hand, high-performance microprocessors with heterogeneous multi-cores w...

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Main Authors: Won W. Ro, Deokho Kim, Karam Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-08-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/11/8/7908/
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Summary:While network coding is well known for its efficiency and usefulness in wireless sensor networks, the excessive costs associated with decoding computation and complexity still hinder its adoption into practical use. On the other hand, high-performance microprocessors with heterogeneous multi-cores would be used as processing nodes of the wireless sensor networks in the near future. To this end, this paper introduces an efficient network coding algorithm developed for the heterogenous multi-core processors. The proposed idea is fully tested on one of the currently available heterogeneous multi-core processors referred to as the Cell Broadband Engine.
ISSN:1424-8220