Network Coding for Line Networks with Broadcast Channels

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Network Coding for Line Networks with Broadcast Channels

Gerhard Kramer¹ and Seyed Mohammadsadegh Tabatabaei Yazdi²

¹ Institute for Communications Engineering, Technische Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany ² Corporate R&D, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA 92121, USA

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Received: 26 July 2012; in revised form: 7 September 2012 / Accepted: 18 September 2012 / Published: 28 September 2012

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory Applied to Communications and Networking)

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Abstract: An achievable rate region for line networks with edge and node capacity constraints and broadcast channels (BCs) is derived. The region is shown to be the capacity region if the BCs are orthogonal, deterministic, physically degraded, or packet erasure with one-bit feedback. If the BCs are physically degraded with additive Gaussian noise then independent Gaussian inputs achieve capacity.

Keywords: broadcast channels; capacity; network coding; relay channels

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Kramer, G.; Yazdi, S.M.T. Network Coding for Line Networks with Broadcast Channels. Entropy 2012, 14, 1813-1828.

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Kramer G, Yazdi SMT. Network Coding for Line Networks with Broadcast Channels. Entropy. 2012; 14(10):1813-1828.

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Kramer, Gerhard; Yazdi, Seyed Mohammadsadegh Tabatabaei. 2012. "Network Coding for Line Networks with Broadcast Channels." Entropy 14, no. 10: 1813-1828.

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