SPP 2378 Resilient Worlds

ResCCTC: Enhancing Resilience in Wireless Networks with Network Coding and Cross-Technology Communication

Institutions

  • TU Berlin
  • TU Dresden

Team @ TKN

Funding

  • DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Project Time

  • 11/2026 - 12/2028

Description

The project Enhancing Resilience in Wireless Networks with Network Coding and Cross-Technology Communication (ResCCTC) addresses fundamental challenges in ensuring robustness and reliability in increasingly dense and heterogeneous wireless networks. Modern communication environments—comprising WiFi, LTE-U/LAA, ZigBee, LoRa, and Bluetooth—suffer from interference, node failures, and jamming attacks that can severely disrupt connectivity. This project jointly explores Cross-Technology Communication (CTC) and Network Coding (NC) as complementary mechanisms to enhance network resilience. While CTC enables direct interaction between heterogeneous wireless technologies, NC provides efficient data dissemination across multiple unreliable links without prior knowledge of their characteristics. Their joint use promises improved reliability, throughput, and adaptability, particularly under dynamic and adverse conditions. The project pursues three objectives: (1) to systematically quantify the benefits of combining CTC and NC for resilient wireless networking; (2) to introduce the novel concept of latency resilience, ensuring minimal delay even under disruption; and (3) to employ reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize protocol parameters in real time. Methodologically, the project combines analytical modeling, simulation (using ns-3, ns3sionna, and ns3gym), and experimental validation in a heterogeneous multi-radio testbed. ResCCTC will thus contribute a key step toward self-adaptive and resilient wireless infrastructures capable of maintaining service continuity under failure, interference, and attack.

Selected Publications

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Last modified: 2026-11-11