Selection of Bit-Rate for Wireless Network Coding

Network coding is known to improve throughput by mixing information from different flows and conveying more information in each transmission. Recently some proposals have demonstrated the benefits of applying network coding to wireless networks with broadcast transmissions. It is expected that the opportunities for coding and the corresponding gains depend on the bit-rate chosen for determining routes and transmitting packets. However, the previous work on wireless network coding assumed a fixed rate and did not explicitly account for the interaction between rate selection and coding gain.