Everything about Linear network coding

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Linear network codingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Completion Delay of Random Linear Network Coding in Full-Duplex Relay NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Java software solutionsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Linear network codingCited 2,623 times
5. Go sideways: Cooperative MIMOA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Associativity-based routingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Linear network coding

  S.-Y.R. Li, R.W. Yeung, Ning Cai · 2003 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2,623 citations

• A Random Linear Network Coding Approach to Multicast

  T. Ho, M. Medard, R. Koetter · 2006 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1,993 citations

• Insufficiency of Linear Coding in Network Information Flow

  R. Dougherty, C. Freiling, K. Zeger · 2005 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 276 citations

• Multiple-User Cooperative Communications Based on Linear Network Coding

  Ming Xiao, Mikael Skoglund · 2010 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 149 citations

• Exact Decoding Probability Under Random Linear Network Coding

  Oscar Trullols-Cruces, Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas, Marco Fiore · 2011 · IEEE Communications Letters · 134 citations

• Linear Network Coding: Theory and Algorithms

  Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Qifu Tyler Sun, Ziyu Shao · 2011 · Proceedings of the IEEE · 74 citations

• Subspace Based Network Community Detection Using Sparse Linear Coding

  Arif Mahmood, Michael Small · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 66 citations

• On the Delay Distribution of Random Linear Network Coding

  Maricica Nistor, Daniel E. Lucani, Tiago T. V. Vinhoza · 2011 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 58 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Completion Delay of Random Linear Network Coding in Full-Duplex Relay Networks

  Rina Su, Qifu Tyler Sun, Zhongshan Zhang · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 20 citations

• Statistical Channel Model and Systematic Random Linear Network Coding Based QoS Oriented and Energy Efficient UWSN Routing Protocol

  Pramod Halebeedu Basavaraju, Gururaj Harinahalli Lokesh, Gowtham Mohan · 2022 · Electronics · 18 citations

• Gaussian and Fading Multiple Access Using Linear Physical-Layer Network Coding

  Qiuzhuo Chen, Fangtao Yu, Tao Yang · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 13 citations

• RS-RLNC: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Selective Random Linear Network Coding Framework for Tactile Internet

  Shahzad, Rashid Ali, Amir Haider · 2023 · IEEE Access · 13 citations

• Adjustable random linear network coding (ARLNC): A solution for data transmission in dynamic IoT computational environments

  Raffi Dilanchian, Ali Bohlooli, Kamal Jamshidi · 2025 · Digital Communications and Networks · 11 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Java software solutionsLewis, John, John E. Lewis Ph. D. · 1997
• C How to ProgramPaul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel · 2007
• Communications, Signal Processing, and SystemsQilian Liang · 2012
• Mathematical structures for computer scienceJudith L. Gersting · 1982
• Discrete and combinatorial mathematicsRalph P. Grimaldi · 1985
• Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart. Imaging and Modelling ChallengesOscar Camara · 2012
• Switching and finite automata theoryZvi Kohavi · 1970
• Introduction to linear algebraGilbert Strang · 1998

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