Network coding represents a paradigm shift in data transmission, whereby intermediate nodes within a network combine incoming data streams using algebraic operations before forwarding them. This ...

The history of modern communications systems has been marked by flashes of startling insight. Claude E. Shannon, mathematician and engineer, launched one such revolution almost 60 years ago by laying ...

Some of high tech’s biggest names — Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. among them — are starting to embrace a technology called network coding in an effort to boost throughput, ...