Recently, network coding technique has emerged as a promising approach that
supports reliable transmission over wireless loss channels. In existing
protocols where users have no interest in considering the encoded packets they
had in coding or decoding operations, this rule is expensive and inef-ficient.
This paper studies the impact of encoded packets in the reliable unicast
network coding via some theoretical analysis.
Recently, there has been a growing interest of using network coding to
support reliable unicast over an error-prone channel. However, previous network
coding schemes focused only on native packets and ignored the role of encoded
packets. In this paper, we develop an efficient retransmission approach with
network coding method, namely Encoded packet-Assisted Rescue (EAR), which is
able to overcome this limitation. Using the proposed network coding approach,
clients store the overheard encoded packets and report to the sender.