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2010
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A Network Coding Approach to Loss Tomography

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A Network Coding Approach to Loss Tomography
Network tomography aims at inferring internal network characteristics based on measurements at the edge of the network. In loss tomography, in particular, the characteristic of interest is the loss rate of individual links. There is a significant body of work dedicated to this problem using multicast and/or unicast end-to-end probes. Independently, recent advances in network coding have shown that there are several advantages from allowing intermediate nodes to process and combine, in addition to just forward, packets. In this paper, we pose the problem of loss tomography in networks that have network coding capabilities. We design a framework for estimating link loss rates, which leverages network coding capabilities and we show that it improves several aspects of tomography, including the identifiability of links, the tradeoff between estimation accuracy and bandwidth efficiency, and the complexity of probe path selection. We discuss the cases of inferring: the loss rate of a single...
Athina Markopoulou, Christina Fragouli, Minas Gjok
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where CORR
Authors Athina Markopoulou, Christina Fragouli, Minas Gjoka
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