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Chapter 4: Unequal Erasure Protection (UEP) in <strong>Network</strong> <strong>Coding</strong> 51<br />

Table 4.2: The resulting expected utilities of the recovered scalable data in the network<br />

example when the suggested strategy is applied<br />

.<br />

E 3 [U 1 ] 1.4873<br />

E 3 [U 2 ] 1.4873<br />

E 3 [U 3 ] 1.4873<br />

E 3 [U 4 ] 1.3973<br />

min E 3 [U i ] 1.3973<br />

a significant amount of quality can be saved if we take the UEP mechanism of network<br />

codes into consideration <strong>and</strong> apply the suggested strategy.<br />

Table 4.3: Comparison of minimum expected utilities of the received scalable data in the<br />

network example for different strategies<br />

.<br />

The Best The Suggested The Average over All The Worst<br />

Assignment Strategy Possible Assignments Assignment<br />

1.3973 1.3973 1.3055 1.2757<br />

4.10 An Ascending-bid Auction Algorithm for GEK<br />

Allocation<br />

Unlike the previous section, the objective of the GEK assignment algorithm in this section<br />

is a fair competition among sink nodes. We assume that the source node is an auctioneer<br />

<strong>and</strong> the sinks are participants who bid for the rights to choose GEK allocation. Since we<br />

will not give a monopoly to any single sink node, the allocation problem is formulated as<br />

a multiple-item auction. For this kind of auction, the dynamic counterpart of Vickrey’s<br />

effective static design [80] has been proposed since 2004 by Ausubel [39], whose idea will<br />

be used in our auction as follows. The source node calls a price, bidders respond with

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