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List of Figures<br />

2.1 A basic digital communication system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

2.2 A secure digital communication system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

2.3 Binary Erasure Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

2.4 Binary Symmetric Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

2.5 (a) A network. (b) A spanning tree for the leftmost router. (c) A multicast<br />

tree of group 1. (d) A multicast tree of group 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />

3.1 An example of a simple directed graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

3.2 An example of a multigraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

3.3 Illustration of the max-flow problem as a special case of the minimum cost<br />

flow problem [17] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

3.4 (a) A graph G with the associated edge capacities, (b) the minimum cut<br />

of G, <strong>and</strong> (c) the maximum flow of G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

3.5 The butterfly network with edge capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

3.6 Illustration of information flow within the butterfly network . . . . . . . . 25<br />

3.7 <strong>Network</strong> coding in a butterfly network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

3.8 The butterfly network with imaginary edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

3.9 The butterfly network with global encoding kernels labelling all edges . . . 31<br />

4.1 Recovery of <strong>layer</strong>ed data with the third <strong>layer</strong> missing . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

4.2 <strong>Network</strong> coding in a butterfly network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />

4.3 Another network coding pattern in a butterfly network . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

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