Investigation on Static Network with Network Coding

Network Coding is not only a new invented technique in information theory, but also it has been rapidly developed and utilised in many areas. This thesis is to concentrate on the development in static network, it aims to break the traditional conscious on the multicasting, and achieve the improved throughput with network coding technique. And a concentration simulation work on P2P file sharing system with network coding to identify the optimal throughput on an application layer. This research has successfully established two simulations, one is to simulate the basic butterfly network structure with network coding, the other one is to emphasis on the application layer in P2P file sharing system. The results show that network coding is potential to' improve the throughput in data transmission. With our results, we achieve at least 5 times faster than flooding method. And also a poster about the research work has been presented in the INC 2006 conference held by NRG of University of Plymouth. The presented poster is attached in appendix.School of Computing, Communications, and Engineerin