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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Main Authors: Barros, Joao (Author), Mitzenmacher, Michael (Author), Sundararajan, Jay-Kumar (Contributor), Shah, Devavrat (Contributor), Medard, Muriel (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010-09-30T18:44:53Z.
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