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	Title:  A tutorial on network coding

                   Tracey Ho
   Center for the Mathematics of Information
       California Institute of Technology

Abstract: Network coding generalizes traditional forwarding in networks to
consider coding at intermediate nodes, offering advantages in terms of
capacity, robustness, distributed operation and security, among others. This
talk is the first of a two-part series on this rapidly growing research
area. It will cover the basics of multicast network coding, as well as give
an overview of some major threads of work, including code construction
methods, bounds on throughput advantages over routing, non-multicast network
coding, and some applications.

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