Network Coding for Efficient File Transfer in Narrowband Environments

Abstract

Achieving efficient end-to-end file transfer is challenging in a narrow-band communication environment with high latency and high packet loss rate. The traditional TCP-based scheme and the UDP-based automatic retransmission scheme have defects in the transmission performance, which cannot meet the increasing user demands. This paper proposes a high-efficiency file transfer scheme based on random linear network coding and the Kalman filtering algorithm to implement efficient end-to-end file transfer in narrow-band environment. The scheme predicts the link quality of file transmission through the Kalman filter algorithm and designs an adaptive coding strategy for file transfer through random linear network coding. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms traditional file transfer schemes.