Title of dissertation: MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL AND NETWORK CODING FOR WIRELESS INFORMATION FLOWS Yalin Evren Sagduyu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Anthony Ephremides Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering This dissertation addresses the intertwined problems of medium access control (MAC) and network coding in ad hoc wireless networks. The emerging wire...

The key difference between visible light communication (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) is the former’s line-of-sight (LOS) transmission nature, hence a relay node has to be adopted for VLC extend its coverage. Physical-layer network coding (PNC) advantage of doubling throughput two-way (TWRN), where two end nodes exchange information via help relay, compared with conventional store-and-forward r...