Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory Volume 2 Issue 5 DOI: 10.1561/0100000007II Network Coding Theory Part II: Multiple Source Raymond W. Yeung Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, whyeung@ie.cuhk.edu.hk Shuo-Yen R. Li Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, bob@ie.cuhk.edu.hk Ning Cai The State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710071, China, caining@mail.xidian.edu.cn Zhen Zhang Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565, USA, zzhang@milly.usc.edu Abstract Store-and-forward had been the predominant technique for transmitting information through a network until its optimality was refuted by network coding theory. Network coding offers a new paradigm for network communications and has generated abundant research interest in information and coding theory, networking, switching, wireless communications, cryptography, computer science, operations research, and matrix theory. In this issue we review network coding theory for the scenario when there are multiple source nodes each intending to transmit to a different set of destination nodes. A companion issue reviews the foundational work that has led to the development of network coding theory and discusses the theory for the transmission from a single source node to other nodes in the network. Publisher’s Note References to ‘Part I’ and ‘Part II’ in this issue refer to Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Technology Volume 2 Numbers 4 and 5 respectively.   Next Recommend Journal to Librarian Buy Book Version