Network coding meets TCP

We propose a mechanism that incorporates network coding into TCP with only minor changes to the protocol stack, thereby allowing incremental deployment. In our scheme, the source transmits random linear combinations of packets currently in the congestion window. At the heart of our scheme is a new i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barros, Joao, Mitzenmacher, Michael, Sundararajan, Jay-Kumar, Shah, Devavrat, Medard, Muriel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58796
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4059-407X
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0737-3259