Network Coding and Subspace Designs

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greferath, Marcus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pavčević, Mario Osvin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Silberstein, Natalia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vázquez-Castro, María Ángeles (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology,
• Subjects: Electrical engineering.; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Information storage and retrieval.; Combinatorics.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Coding and Information Theory.; Information Storage and Retrieval.
• Physical Description: XIV, 442 p. 57 illus., 32 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319702933
• ISSN: 1860-4862
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70293-3

This book, written by experts from universities and major research laboratories, addresses the hot topic of network coding, a powerful scheme for information transmission in networks that yields near-optimal throughput. It introduces readers to this striking new approach to network coding, in which the network is not simply viewed as a mechanism for delivering packets, but rather an algebraic structure named the subspace, which these packets span. This leads to a new kind of coding theory, employing what are called subspace codes. The book presents selected, highly relevant advanced research output on: Subspace Codes and Rank Metric Codes; Finite Geometries and Subspace Designs; Application of Network Coding; Codes for Distributed Storage Systems. The outcomes reflect research conducted within the framework of the European COST Action IC1104: Random Network Coding and Designs over GF(q). Taken together, they offer communications engineers, R&D engineers, researchers and graduate students in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering a comprehensive reference guide to the construction of optimal network codes, as well as efficient encoding and decoding schemes for a given network code.