Information Theory and Network Coding II

Dear Colleagues,

Network coding is a more general way of information processing at intermediate network nodes in comparison to the transitional store-and-forward, and enables the use of information theory to guide the design of network information systems. In the past ten years, significant progress has been made in refining network coding technologies toward real-world applications. For example, network-coding-based distributed storage and network caching systems have been adopted in data centers and content distribution systems. Random linear network coding schemes have been applied in network communication applications to improve communication efficiency.

New networking systems like vehicular networks, industrial networks and underwater networks are emerging, and network applications such as federated learning, virtual reality and metaverse impose new demands for networking. The traditional network communication infrastructures face the challenges of network coverage, communication bandwidth and latency. It is promising that network coding can play significant roles in the future of networking systems.

This Special Issue aims to be a forum for the presentation of innovative network coding theories and technologies for various emerging networking systems. In addition to communications, topics about network coding for computation, distributed storage, caching, security and message integrity are also welcome.

Dr. Shenghao Yang
Prof. Dr. Kenneth Shum
Guest Editors

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