Network coding (NC) is an approach for increasing the throughput of communication networks. NC has been derived from the idea of combining packets and forwarding them to achieve higher throughputs. From the very beginning, NC has attracted the attentions of scholars since they could improve the throughput of wired networks. Previous works have focused on the improvement of network throughput. Some methods add artificial delay to send packets. The methods are used in order to gain coding time and to increase throughput but they could not be used in immediate applications. However, early packets dispatch or adding delay to packets, for increasing coding time, can influence on the jitter of sent data. On the other hand, jitter is an important parameter in determining multimedia broadcasting time. Unlike previous methods, this paper provides a jitter-based coding algorithm using Jacobsen method. In the proposed method, the selection priority is based on packets jitter so that a packet with the minimum jitter is considered as the first priority for coding. Related computations are performed through Jacobson algorithm. According to simulation results, selecting a proper coding pattern for jitter can improve jitter by 30% while the throughput of this method shows no considerable change compared with that of available methods.

Network coding is introduced as a technique to improve performance in communication networks. In network coding, intermediate nodes mix packets to enhance network performance. To increase throughput, several approaches have been proposed based on network coding. Many approaches use delay in sending packets to increase throughput. These approaches are not suitable for delay sensitive applications. To solve this problem, some methods make a tradeoff between delay and throughput. In this paper, unlike other approaches, network coding is used to reduce end-to-end delay in wireless networks. In our proposed approach, packets do not receive more delay and the priority of the selected packets for coding is based on their end-to-end delay. The packet that tolerates more delay has higher priority for coding with forwarding packet. Simulation results illustrate that using network coding compared with other approaches can reduce end-to-end delay.