公开(公告)号：US10004037B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-19

申请号：US15219293

申请日：2016-07-26

Applicant: Macau University of Science and Technology

Inventor： Qinglin Zhao ,  Caihong Kai ,  Hanxu Zheng

IPC: G08C17/00 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04B17/391

CPC classification number: H04W52/0219 ,  H04B17/3912 ,  H04W4/70 ,  Y02D70/00 ,  Y02D70/22

Abstract: The throughput of a wireless network can be boosted by network coding (NC). The present invention combines NC-aware routing and TDMA-based MAC protocol for energy-efficient design in the wireless network, and provides a method thereof. An optimization model, which is a minimum energy consumption model (MECM), is formulated for minimizing the energy consumption for accomplishing a set of flow transmissions. In particular, based on a set of user traffic-flow demands, a NC-aware traffic-flow assignment that minimizes a total energy consumption of packets delivering to meet the user traffic-flow demands is determined. Thereafter, given the optimal flow assignment, a minimum timeslots model (MTM) which leads to a TDMA-based scheduling strategy at the MAC layer is developed. The MTM is to minimize the total number of timeslots required for transmission under a condition that the NC-aware traffic-flow assignment as already determined is accomplishable.