Towards the Tactile Internet: Decreasing Communication Latency with Network Coding and Software Defined Networking

5G communication networks enable the steering and control of Internet of Things and, therefore, require extremely low latency communications referred to as the tactile Internet. In this paper, we show that the massive use of network coding throughout the network significantly improves latency and reduces the frequency of packet re-transmission. Thus, an architecture built around network coding may be a feasible road towards realizing the tactile...