Network Coding: Fundamentals and Applications

Network coding is a field of information and coding theory and is a method of attaining maximum information flow in a network. This book is an ideal introduction for the communications and network engineer, working in research and development, who needs an intuitive introduction to network coding and to the increased performance and reliability it offers in many applications.

• A clear and intuitive introduction to network coding, avoiding difficult mathematics, which does not require a background in information theory.
• Emphasis on how network coding techniques can be implemented, using a wide range of applications in communications and network engineering
• Detailed coverage on content distribution networks, peer-to-peer networks, overlay networks, streaming and multimedia applications, storage networks, network security and military networks, reliable communication, wireless networks, delay-tolerant and disruption-tolerant networks, cellular and ad hoc networks (including LTE and WiMAX), and connections with data compression and compressed sensing
• Edited and contributed by the world's leading experts

About the Editors

Muriel Médard received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), in Mathematics and in Humanities, as well as M.S. and Sc.D. degrees EE, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

She is a Professor in the EECS Department at MIT. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Her research interests are in network coding, as well as optical and wireless networks.

Muriel has served as an Associate Editor (AE) for the Optical Communications and Networking Series of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IT), and for the OSA Journal of Optical Networking. She has been Guest Editor for the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), for IT (twice), for JSAC, and for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. She is an AE for JLT. She has served as Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE ISIT, of WiOpt, and of ACM CoNEXT.

She is a recipient of the 2009 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking, the 2009 IEEE Joint Information Theory/Communications Society Paper Prize, the 2002 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award, and the Best Paper Award at the Fourth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, 2003. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2001 and the 2004 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award at MIT. She was named a 2007 Gilbreth Lecturer by the National Academy of Engineering. She has served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society for several years, currently as First Vice-President.

Alex Sprintson received the B.Sc. degree (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1995, 2001, and 2003, respectively.

Alex is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. His research interests lie in the general area of communication networks with a focus on network coding, network survivability and robustness network algorithms, and QoS routing.

Dr. Sprintson received the Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship and the NSF CAREER award. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters and Computer Networks Journal. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE Infocom 2006–2012.