Network Coding for IIoT Multi-Cloud Environments

With the consolidation of Industry 4.0, IIoT (Industrial IoT) environments are becoming more common. Communications in these scenarios are mostly wireless, and due to the lossy nature of wireless links, loss of information becomes an intrinsic problem. Conventional recovery schemes come at cost, since they increase the delay. On the other hand, both reliability (robustness) and low delay are crucial requirements for IIoT. An interesting strategy to improve both of them is the use of Network Coding techniques, which have shown promising results, in terms of increased reliability and performance. Besides improving communication performance, Network Coding techniques enable a more efficient multi-cloud storage, which is often used in IIoT. This thesis aims at finding a Network Coding based solution that would efficiently respond to IIoT needs.