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This paper presents an analytical study of average delay and throughput in a two-way relay network exploiting network coding to exchange source packets, where arrival and departure of packets are stochastic. In this case, a fundamental problem for the relay node is whether to wait in order to obtain a coding opportunity, leading to reduction of the number of transmissions, or sending a packet (coded/uncoded) whenever it has a transmission opportunity, leading to reduction of the packet delay. In order to address the fundamental trade-off between packet delay and transmission power, we develop three network coding schemes based on power-delay constraint of the application. We devise a... 

In traditional wireless networks, physical layer network coding (PNC) exploits the inverse additivity property of broadcast signals in the medium, an idea which is not directly applicable to molecular networks. In this paper, to make the natural XOR operation possible at the physical layer, we exploit the reaction of different molecule types and we propose a PNC scheme in diffusion-based molecular relay networks. For comparison, we consider the straightforward network coding (SNC) scheme in molecular networks. Assuming the ligand-receptor binding process at the receivers, we investigate the error performance of both schemes. It is observed that in addition to the simplicity of the proposed...