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Efficient error estimating coding: feasibility and applications

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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 20, Issue 1

Pages 29 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2011.2157357

Published: 01 February 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Motivated by recent emerging systems that can leverage partially correct packets in wireless networks, this paper proposes the novel concept of error estimating coding (EEC). Without correcting the errors in the packet, EEC enables the receiver of the packet to estimate the packet's bit error rate, which is perhaps the most important meta-information of a partially correct packet. Our EEC design provides provable estimation quality with rather low redundancy and computational overhead. To demonstrate the utility of EEC, we exploit and implement EEC in two wireless network applications, Wi-Fi rate adaptation and real-time video streaming. Our real-world experiments show that these applications can significantly benefit from EEC.

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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Volume 20, Issue 1

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Published: 01 February 2012

Accepted: 28 April 2011

Revised: 14 April 2011

Received: 20 October 2010

Published in TON Volume 20, Issue 1

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Zhou ZChen B(2018)RFID Counting over Time-Varying ChannelsIEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8485987(1142-1150)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8485987
Zhao ZDong WChen GMin GGu TBu J(2017)Embracing Corruption Burstiness: Fast Error Recovery for ZigBee under Wi-Fi InterferenceIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing10.1109/TMC.2016.263069616:9(2518-2530)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2017
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