INC was established in 2010 with support from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong and The Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong as an Area of Excellence. It is the largest engineering research project ever funded in Hong Kong. The mission of INC is to make Hong Kong a major long-term contributor in Network Coding, a major research field co-founded by this team. Specific deliverables include:

  • To build in Hong Kong a world-leading network coding centre by maintaining a world-class research team with comprehensive expertise covering all areas of Network Coding

  • To train PhDs and postdoctoral researchers at a quality level employable by top universities around the world

  • To collaborate with industry to develop network coding related technologies

  • To discover through network coding new directions in mathematics with important long-term impacts

  • To help Hong Kong become an international research centre

Single-Source Network Coding

R. Ahlswede, N. Cai, S.-Y. R. Li and R. W. Yeung, “Network information flow,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 1204-1216, 2000.

S.-Y. R. Li, R. W. Yeung, and N. Cai, “Linear network coding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 2,  pp. 371-381, 2003.

S . Jaggi, P. Sanders, P. A. Chou, M. Effros, S. Egner, K. Jain, and L .M. G. M. Tolhuizen, “Polynomial time algorithms for multicast network code construction,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 6,  pp. 1973-1982, 2005.

S.-Y. R. Li and Q. T. Sun,“Network Coding Theory Via Commutative Algebra,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 403-415, 2011.

Multisource Network Coding

R. W. Yeung and Z. Zhang, “Distributed source coding for satellite communications,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 1111-1120, 1999.

X. Yan, R. W. Yeung, and Z. Zhang, “An implicit characterization of the achievable rate region for acyclic multisource multisink network coding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-58, no. 9, pp. 5625–5639, 2012. 

Network Error Correction

R. W. Yeung and N. Cai, “Network error correction, Part I: Basic concepts and upper bounds,” Communications in Information and Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 19-36, 2006.

N. Cai and R. W. Yeung, “Network error correction, Part II: Lower bounds,” Communications in Information and Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 37-54, 2006. 

Z. Zhang, “Linear network error correction codes in packet networks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-54, no. 1, pp. 209-218, 2008.

S. Jaggi, M. Langberg, S. Katti, T. Ho, D. Katabi, M. Médard, M. Effros, “Resilient network coding in the presence of Byzantine adversaries,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-54, no. 6, pp. 2596-2603, 2008.

Secure Network Coding

N. Cai and R. W. Yeung, “Secure network coding on a wiretap network,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-57, no. 1, pp. 424-435, 2011.

Physical-Layer Network Coding

S. Zhang, S. C. Liew, and P. P. Lam, “Hot topic: Physical-layer network coding,” 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2006), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Sept 24-29, 2006.

S. Zhang and S. C. Liew, “Channel coding and decoding in a relay system operated with physical-layer network coding,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 788-796, June 2009.

L. Lu, T. Wang, S. C. Liew and S. Zhang, “Implementation of physical-layer network coding,” Elsevier PHYCOM, Special Issue on “Network Coding and Its Applications to Wireless Communications,” vol. 6, pp. 74-87, Mar 2013.

Network Coding Data Storage

Y. Hu, H. C. H. Chen, P. P. C. Lee, and Y. Tang, “NCCloud: Applying network coding for the storage repair in a cloud-of-clouds,” Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’12), San Jose, CA, Feb 2012.

Batched Sparse (BATS) Code

S. Yang and R. W. Yeung, “Batched sparse code,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

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