Network Coding As a Performance Booster for Concurrent Multi-path Transfer of Data In Multi-hop Wireless Networks

 Network Coding As a Performance Booster for Concurrent Multi-path Transfer of Data In Multi-hop Wireless Networks

 The emerging use of multi-homed wireless devices along with simultaneous multi-path data transfer offers tremendous potentials to improve the capacity of multi-hop wireless networks. The use of simultaneous data transfer over separate disjoint paths in multi-hop wireless networks to increase network capacity is a less explored subject, mainly because of the challenges it triggers for the reliable transport layer protocols. Reliable transport layer protocols generally use packet sequence number as a mean to ensure delivery.