Network Coding - Fundamentals And Applications

Edited and written by the world's leading experts, this book gives a clear and intuitive introduction to the principles and techniques in network coding. Avoiding information theory, this book is aimed at the communications and network engineer who wants an intuitive, easy-to-understand introduction to the techniques and the benefits it offers their field. The book focuses on network coding for multicast and gives overviews of the algebraic framework, polynomial time algorithms for network code construction, randomized network coding, coding advantage, together with details of the practical implementation of network coding techniques. All the possible applications that exist currently are presented clearly and in detail, showing the benefits that network coding can provide.