Techniques for receiver-specific network coding redundancy

A method for wireless communications at a receiving device, comprising:

• determining a quality level of a link between a transmitting device and the receiving device based at least in part on one or more messages communicated over the link;
• receiving, from the transmitting device via the link, one or more data packets that are network encoded according to a first receiver-specific redundancy configuration of a plurality of redundancy configurations corresponding to the quality level, wherein the first receiver-specific redundancy configuration indicates a quantity of network-encoded symbols for network encoding of the one or more data packets for transmission;
• and
• network decoding the one or more data packets based at least in part on the first receiver-specific redundancy configuration.

An apparatus for wireless communications at a transmitting device, comprising:

• a processor;
• memory coupled with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• determine a quality level of a link between the transmitting device and a receiving device based at least in part on one or more messages communicated over the link;
• select a first receiver-specific redundancy configuration of a plurality of redundancy configurations based at least in part on the quality level, wherein the first receiver-specific redundancy configuration indicates a quantity of network-encoded symbols for network encoding of one or more data packets for transmission to the receiving device;
• network encode the one or more data packets for transmission to the receiving device according to the quantity of network-encoded symbols of the first receiver-specific redundancy configuration;
• and
• transmit, to the receiving device, the one or more network encoded data packets.

An apparatus for wireless communications at a receiving device, comprising:

• a processor;
• memory coupled with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• determine a quality level of a link between a transmitting device and the receiving device based at least in part on one or more messages communicated over the link;
• receive, from the transmitting device via the link, one or more data packets that are network encoded according to a first receiver-specific redundancy configuration of a plurality of redundancy configurations corresponding to the quality level, wherein the first receiver-specific redundancy configuration indicates a quantity of network-encoded symbols for network encoding of the one or more data packets for transmission;
• and
• network decode the one or more data packets based at least in part on the first receiver-specific redundancy configuration.