CSE 725 - Network Coding: Theory and Applications
Spring 2007

• Here is a list of topics and papers suggested for your presentation. This list shall be improved and updated gradually throughout the semester. Again, please feel free to pick your own topic and discuss it with me.
• Lastly, the papers listed for a particular topic are, in some cases, not sufficient for a survey on that topic. They are listed as the first starting point.

1. Basic Network Coding

• R. Ahlswede, N. Cai, S.-Y. R. Li and R. W. Yeung, "Network information flow," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 46, pp. 1204-1216, 2000. [pdf]
• S.-Y. R. Li, R. W. Yeung, and N. Cai. "Linear network coding". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , Februray, 2003. [pdf]
• R. Koetter, M. Medard, "An Algebraic Approach to Network Coding", Transactions on Networking, October 2003. [pdf].
• April Rasala Lehman, Eric Lehman: Complexity classification of network information flow problems. SODA 2004: 142-150. [pdf]
• Jaggi, Sidharth and Sanders, Peter and Chou, Philip A. and Effros, Michelle and Egner, Sebastian and Jain, Kamal and Tolhiuzen, Ludo M. G. M. (2005) Polynomial time algorithms for multicast network code construction. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 51 (6). pp. 1973-1982. ISSN 0018-9448. [pdf]
• Michael Langberg, Alexander Sprintson, Jehoshua Bruck, The encoding complexity of network coding, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Aditya Ramamoorthy, Kamal Jain, Philip A. Chou, Michelle Effros, Separating distributed source coding from network coding, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, June 2006. [pdf]
• Chandra Chekuri, Christina Fragouli, Emina Soljanin, On average throughput and alphabet size in network coding, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, June 2006. [pdf]
• Randall Dougherty, Chris Freiling, Kenneth Zeger, Unachievability of network coding capacity, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• April Rasala Lehman, Eric Lehman, Network coding: does the model need tuning?, Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms SODA '05. [pdf]
• Xijin Yan, Jun Yang, Zhen Zhang, An outer bound for multisource multisink network coding with minimum cost consideration, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Supratim Deb, Muriel Médard, Clifford Choute, Algebraic gossip: a network coding approach to optimal multiple rumor mongering, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Robert Kleinberg, April Rasala Lehman, On the capacity of information networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Razvan Cristescu, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Lossy network correlated data gathering with high-resolution coding, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Nicholas J. A. Harvey, David R. Karger, Kazuo Murota, Deterministic network coding by matrix completion, Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms SODA '05. [pdf]
• Alexandros G. Dimakis, Vinod Prabhakaran, Kannan Ramchandran, Decentralized erasure codes for distributed networked storage, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Ángela I. Barbero, Øyvind Ytrehus, Cycle-logical treatment for "Cyclopathic" networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]

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• Mea Wang, Baochun Li. "How Practical is Network Coding?" in the Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2006), pp. 274-278, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, June 19-21, 2006. [pdf]

1a. Random Network Coding

• Zongpeng Li, Baochun Li. "Network Coding: The Case of Multiple Unicast Sessions," in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 29 - October 1, 2004. [pdf]
• Zongpeng Li, Baochun Li. "Network Coding in Undirected Networks," in the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS 2004), pp. 257-262, Princeton, New Jersey, March 17-19, 2004. [pdf]
• T. Ho, R. Koetter, M. Médard, M. Effros, J. Shi, and D. Karger, "A Random Linear Network Coding Approach to Multicast", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 52 (10). pp. 4413-4430, October 2006. [pdf]

1b. Network Coding on Undirected Graphs

• Kamal Jain, Vijay V. Vazirani, Gideon Yuval, On the capacity of multiple unicast sessions in undirected graphs, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]

2. Multicast

• Lun, D.S.; Ratnakar, N.; Koetter, R.; Medard, M.; Ahmed, E.; Hyunjoo Lee; Achieving minimum-cost multicast: a decentralized approach based on network coding, INFOCOM'05. [pdf]
• D. S. Lun, N. Ratnakar, M. Médard, R. Koetter, D. R. Karger, T. Ho, and E. Ahmed, "Minimum-Cost Multicast over Coded Packet Networks", IEEE Transactions on Theory, 52(6):2608-2623, June 2006..
• Xue-Bin Liang, Matrix games in the multicast networks: maximum information flows with network switching, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Zongpeng Li, Baochun Li, Lap Chi Lau, On achieving maximum multicast throughput in undirected networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Desmond S. Lun, Niranjan Ratnakar, Muriel Médard, Ralf Koetter, David R. Karger, Tracey Ho, Ebad Ahmed, Fang Zhao, Minimum-cost multicast over coded packet networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Niranjan Ratnakar, Gerhard Kramer, The multicast capacity of deterministic relay networks with no interference, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Yitzhak Birk, Tomer Kol, Coding on demand by an informed source (ISCOD) for efficient broadcast of different supplemental data to caching clients, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• T. Ho and H. Viswanathan, "Dynamic Algorithms for Multicast with Intra-session Network Coding", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. [pdf]

3. Tree Packing

• Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian, Mohammad R. Salavatipour, Packing Steiner Trees, SODA 2003. [pdf]
• Lap Chi Lau, An Approximate Max-Steiner-Tree-Packing Min-Steiner-Cut Theorem, FOCS 2004 [pdf]
• Mohammad R. Salavatipour, Joseph Cheriyan, Hardness and Approximation Results for Packing Steiner Trees, ESA 2004. [postscript | presentation in pdf]
• Yunnan Wu, Kamal Jain, Sun-Yuan Kung, A unification of network coding and tree-packing (routing) theorems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]

4. Wireless Networks

• Gastpar, M.; Vetterli, M.; On the capacity of wireless networks: the relay case, INFOCOM'02. [pdf]
• Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Médard, Jon Crowcroft, XORs in the air: practical wireless network coding, SIGCOMM '06, [pdf]
• Shengli Zhang, Soung Chang Liew, Patrick P. Lam, Hot topic: physical-layer network coding, MOBICOM'06. [pdf]
• Abhinav Kamra, Vishal Misra, Jon Feldman, Dan Rubenstein, Growth codes: maximizing sensor network data persistence, SIGCOMM'06. [pdf]
• Junning Liu, Micah Adler, Don Towsley, Chun Zhang, On optimal communication cost for gathering correlated data through wireless sensor networks, MOBICOM'06. [pdf]
• Dragan Petrovic', Kannan Ramchandran, Jan Rabaey, Overcoming untuned radios in wireless networks with network coding, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 14 Issue SI, 2006. [pdf]
• Wenjun Hu, Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi, Jon Crowcroft, Sending more for less bandwidth and power: a systems approach to network coding, Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles SOSP '05. [pdf]
• J. Jin, T. Ho and H. Viswanathan, "Comparison of Network Coding and Non-Network Coding Schemes for Multi-hop Wireless Networks", International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2006. [pdf]

5. P2P Networks

• Kamal Jain, László Lovász, Philip A. Chou, Building scalable and robust peer-to-peer overlay networks for broadcasting using network coding, Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing PODC '05. [pdf]
• Christos Gkantsidis, John Miller, Pablo Rodriguez, Comprehensive view of a live network coding P2P system, Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM on Internet measurement IMC '06. [pdf]

6. Delay Tolerant Networks

• Jörg Widmer, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Network coding for efficient communication in extreme networks, Proceeding of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking WDTN '05. [pdf]
• Yong Wang, Sushant Jain, Margaret Martonosi, Kevin Fall, Erasure-coding based routing for opportunistic networks, Proceeding of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking WDTN '05. [pdf]

7. Multimedia Transmissions

• J. Chakareski, S. Han, B. Girod, Multimedia coding and security: Layered coding vs. multiple descriptions for video streaming over multiple paths, Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia MULTIMEDIA '03. [pdf]