Adaptive Peer Clustering with Hierarchical Random Linear Network Coding for Resilient Decentralized Wireless Networks

📅 2026-08-26
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本文提出APC-RLNC系统,通过动态分组和分级网络编码解决去中心化无线网络中因节点间信道条件差异导致的通信鲁棒性问题。
📝 Abstract
Decentralized wireless collectives including vehicular swarms, IoT clusters, and edge AI networks require communication protocols that maintain robustness under dynamic topologies and heterogeneous link quality. While Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) provides algebraic resilience against packet erasures, its performance degrades significantly when peers exhibit diverse channel conditions. This paper presents Adaptive Peer Clustering with Hierarchical RLNC (APC-RLNC), a system that dynamically groups peers by exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) reliability metrics and applies multi-tier network coding within and across clusters. We formalize the clustering optimization problem, derive closed-form decoding probability bounds for Markov erasure channels, and prove O(sqrt(T)) regret for online reconfiguration under the Follow-the-Regularized-Leader (FTRL) framework. Our implementation includes both a high-fidelity network simulator and a proof-of-concept testbed deployment on Jetson Nano edge devices. Evaluation across diverse scenarios including high-mobility vehicular networks, burst-error channels, and adversarial interference demonstrates 5.2-9.8 percentage-point packet delivery ratio (PDR) improvements, 10-23% latency reductions, and up to 30% higher node retention compared to state-of-the-art baselines. The system exhibits linear scalability to 500+ nodes and maintains real-time reconfiguration overhead below 3%. APC-RLNC establishes adaptive clustering as a foundational primitive for AI-native 6G wireless systems.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Decentralized Wireless Networks
Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC)
Heterogeneous Link Quality
Dynamic Topologies
Adaptive Clustering
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

Adaptive Peer Clustering
Hierarchical RLNC
EWMA reliability metrics
Markov erasure channels
FTRL framework
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Navaneetha Krishnan Kamalakannan
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SIMATS Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, India
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Harinisri Velmurugan
Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India