Wireless Physical Layer Network Coding: a Gentle Introduction

Abstract

In this chapter we begin to describe the principles of WPNC, taking a more “gentle” approach than we do in the remainder of the book, minimizing the use of mathematics in favor of more descriptive and graphical approaches as a means to explain these principles. We will see that the simple example described in Section 1.4 already captures some of the important issues, but we will begin the process of generalizing it and setting it in the context of a complete network, albeit a very simple one.