BATS code is a low-complexity random linear network coding scheme that can achieve asymptotic bandwidth optimality for many types of networks with packet loss. In this paper, we propose a BATS code based network protocol and evaluate the performance by real-device experiments. Our results demonstrate significant ready-to-implement gain of network coding over forwarding in multi-hop network transmission with packet loss. We also propose an improved protocol to handle the practical issues observed in the experiments.
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