Push further the theoretically attainable performance limits of networked systems with respect to capacity, throughput, latency, complexity and energy with a view towards practically encountered scenarios. These translate to multi-fold performance improvement compared to existing state-of-the-art.

Develop techniques for optimally realizing advanced modes of information transport such as group-to-group and multi-cast communication with several simultaneous sessions.

Quantify the benefits, requirements and challenges of network coding towards robustness and operational simplicity in dynamically changing networks with minimal infrastructure, and provide solutions for resilient communication in extremely volatile unstructured environments.

Design key components and mechanisms of the protocol stack for realizing novel modes of information transport, flow control, and content distribution including end-toend peering with network coding as an enabler.

Utilize intrinsic features of network coding to quantify and fortify information secrecy and resilience of transported data to malevolent actions.

Develop viable solutions for efficient content distribution and storage in isolated mobile network overlay worlds based on network coding.

Provide proof-of-concept validation through an experimental wireless test-bed with various wireless network coding schemes and algorithms.