Network coding theory:An introduction

作     者：Raymond W.YEUNG 

作者机构：Institute of Network Coding and Department of Information EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China》 (中国电气与电子工程前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第5卷第3期

页      面：363-390页

学科分类：0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 

基　　金：The work of the author was partially supported by a grant from the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region China(Project No.AoE/E-02/08) 

主　　题：network coding network communications wireless communications cryptography 

摘      要：For a long time,store-and-forward had been the transport mode in network *** other words,information had been regarded as a commodity that only needs to be routed through the network,possibly with replication at the intermediate *** the late 1990’s,a new concept called network coding fundamentally changed the way a network can be *** the paradigm of network coding,information can be processed within the network for the purpose of *** was demonstrated that compared with store-and-forward,the network throughput can generally be increased by employing network *** then,network coding has made significant impact on different branches of information *** impact of network coding has gone as far as mathematics,physics,and *** expository work aims to be an introduction to this fast-growing subject with a detailed discussion of the basic theoretical results.