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Multicast in wireless erasure networks with feedback

Jiang, Chong and Smith, Brian and Hassibi, Babak and Vishwanath, Sriram (2008) Multicast in wireless erasure networks with feedback. In: 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ, pp. 562-565. ISBN 978-1-4244-2702-4. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190301-141453792

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Abstract

This paper studies the lossy, wireless packet network of [1], in the case of a multicast requirement and the availability of feedback. In the unicast case, feedback is sufficient to allow a strategy which achieves the throughput-optimal cut-set capacity without requiring network coding [3]. We provide a counter-example to show that source coding and feedback, without network coding, is insufficient to achieve the cut-set capacity for the multicast wireless erasure network. In particular, we examine a network with one source, one relay, and two destinations. We show that even with the highly optimistic assumption of feedback which provides global packet state awareness, this network still fails to reach capacity. This bridges the gap between two previously known results; one, that network coding can achieve the capacity of the wireless erasure network, and two, that feedback allows a capacity achieving scheme which does not require network coding in the unicast wireless erasure network.


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Additional Information:© 2008 IEEE. The first three authors would like to acknowledge funding from an ARO Young Investigator Award. The work of the third author was in parts supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CCF 0729203, by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and by Caltech’s Lee Center for Advanced Networking.
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Army Research Office (ARO)UNSPECIFIED
NSFCCF-0729203
David and Lucile Packard FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Caltech Lee Center for Advanced NetworkingUNSPECIFIED
Subject Keywords:network information theory, erasure channel, feedback
DOI:10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625774
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Official Citation:C. Jiang, B. Smith, B. Hassibi and S. Vishwanath, "Multicast in wireless erasure networks with feedback," 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Marrakech, 2008, pp. 562-565. doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625774
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