CATWOMAN: Implementation and Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11 Based Multi-Hop Networks Using Network Coding

Author

Hundebøll, Martin ; Ledet-Pedersen, Jeppe ; Heide, Janus ; Pedersen, Morten V. ; Rein, Stephan A. ; Fitzek, Frank H P

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst., Mobile Device Group, Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2012

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of network coding for an IEEE802.11 enabled meshed network. By means of basic setups the impact of the medium access control in combination with network coding is investigated. In contrast to prior work the network coding approach is tailored to commercial WiFi hardware without any special tweaks. The implementation of network coding is done on top of an existing routing scheme known as B.A.T.M.A.N. which has some inherent advantages to support network coding. We present schemes to utilize the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing to detect coding opportunities. One finding is that the performance gain for the well known Alice and Bob scenario using network coding is 60% compared to a pure relaying scheme. The software used in the presented measurement campaign is made publicly available.

Keywords

access protocols; network coding; telecommunication network routing; wireless LAN; B.A.T.M.A.N. routing; CATWOMAN; IEEE 802.11 based multihop networks; IEEE802.11 enabled meshed network; coding opportunities; commercial WiFi hardware; measurement campaign; medium access control; network coding; network coding performance; performance evaluation; relaying scheme; routing scheme; Ad hoc networks; Encoding; Network coding; Network topology; Relays; Routing; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1880-8

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCFall.2012.6399115

Filename

6399115