Construction and Performance of Network Codes

The main goal of this work is to implement and provide a theoretical description of different schemes of Physical-layer Network Coding. Using a basic setup as starting point, the manuscript presents the construction and performance of different systems of communications with increasing complexity. The text is structured in different sections: first, an introduction to Physical-layer Network Coding and Lattice Network Codes is delivered. Next, the mathematical tools required to understand the system of Compute and Forward (C&F) are presented. Further, a first basic scheme is analysed and implemented. The next step consists on implementing a vectorial C&F System and a HAMMING q-ary coded version. Finally, different approaches to improve the matrix of coefficients are studied and implemented. The main goal of this work is to implement and provide a theoretical description of different schemes of Physical-layer Network Coding. Using a basic setup as starting point, the manuscript presents the construction and performance of different systems of communications with increasing complexity.

The text is structured in different sections: first, an introduction to Physical-layer Network Coding and Lattice Network Codes is delivered. Next, the mathematical tools required to understand the system of Compute and Forward (C&F) are presented. Further, a first basic scheme is analysed and implemented. The next step consists on implementing a vectorial C&F System and a HAMMING q-ary coded version. Finally, different approaches to improve the matrix of coefficients are studied and implemented.

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J. de Curtò possui um duplo mestrado em Telecomunicações da Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya e Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. De Curtò prosseguiu estudos de pós-graduação em Engenharia Eléctrica e Informática na Universidade da Cidade de Hong Kong e na Carnegie Mellon. Teve muitos compromissos de investigação entre eles na ETH Zürich e CUHK.