“…To date, sparse systematic RLNC has been mainly studied for end-to-end coding, i.e., sparse systematic RLNC encoding at the sending (source) node, and decoding at the ultimate destination node. However, an important performance-enhancing aspect of RLNC is recoding at intermediate network nodes, which can substantially increase the overall network performance [20]- [29]. With recoding, VOLUME 4, 2016 the intermediate network nodes not only store-and-forward coded packets, but rather store, recode, and forward the packets.…”