Ultra Reliable Communication via Network Coded Cooperation NCC

Whether Industry 4.0, smart flow of goods or networked mobility: Digitization requires a lot of communication in networked systems, especially wirelessly networked, embedded, electronic systems - wherever mobility, flexibility or retrofitting in an existing environment are requirements.

At the application level, the requirements for the level of detail in digitization and for data quality continue to grow. Data-driven approaches such as learning systems or AI are also dependent on huge amounts of data. As a result, more and more data is generated that, in wireless systems, has to be transmitted over a shared radio resource.

Talk to our experts about the possibilities of improving your radio system through coding processes.

Network Coded Cooperation, as a network-based coding method, has the potential to reduce the need for communication in the wireless network and, at the same time  increase robustness. There is also the possibility that the individual radio node manages with a lower transmission power or that antenna diversity can be dispensed with, because this can be compensated for through the cooperation.

The advantages of network coding are:

• Increasing data throughput by combining data packets on the way to the receiver
• Increasing robustness against transmission errors by using redundant data and spatial diversity of different transmission paths
• Increasing efficiency and reduction of network traffic by flexibly combining data packets instead of serial transmission
• Increasing network flexibility and better routing by using spatial diversity of different transmission paths, cooperation and flexible combination of data packets

Use of Network Coded Cooperation

Network Coded Cooperation is already used at Fraunhofer IIS for some technologies:

IO-Link Wireless

Industrial wireless networking with deterministic cycle time 

The IO-Link wireless radio technology, which can be used worldwide, provides a cost-effective, highly reliable and deterministic communication standard. This technology is an extension of IO-Link on the physical level and defines wireless communication between sensors and actuators to the PLC in the environment of Industry 4.0.

Our research activities on network coding focus on high data throughput and high reliability especially for real-time wireless systems.

Technology consulting

Fraunhofer IIS has extensive technical and practical know-how to support you in the evaluation and introduction of radio systems as well as in the planned use of Network Coding or Network Coded Cooperation. In various projects, methods with low processing latency and low signaling overhead have already been designed, simulated and implemented as embedded real-time software.

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