Signaling protocol for network coding-based congestion control at network layer

The paper proposes a signaling protocol for network coding-based congestion control and it evaluates its performances The theoretical aspects presented herein justify the expected benefits, i.e. increased throughput of the flows passing through the congested network, as well as the decreased delays and number of packets lost. The signaling protocol proposed was simulated in OMNeT++ to demonstrate its feasibility. The preliminary results are encouraging us to continue the investigations and eventually to combine the mechanism with other techniques that could eliminate congestion, i.e. QoS-aware routing.