OddEEC: A New Sketch Technique for Error Estimating Coding

Abstract

Error estimating coding (EEC) is a standard technique for estimating the number of bit errors during packet transmission over wireless networks. In this paper, we propose OddEEC, a novel EEC scheme. OddEEC is a nontrivial adaptation of a data sketching technique named Odd Sketch to EEC, addressing new challenges therein by its bit sampling technique and maximum likelihood estimator. Our experiments show that OddEEC overall achieves comparable estimation accuracy as competing schemes such as gEEC and mEEC, with much smaller decoding complexity.