Impact of Medium Access Control Strategies on the Effectiveness of Advanced Cooperative Hybrid ARQ Techniques

Author

Munari, Andrea ; Rossetto, F. ; Zorzi, Michele

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Padova, Padova, Italy

Volume

10

Issue

9

fYear

2011

fDate

9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2860

Lastpage

2871

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between cooperation and two very different medium access strategies: CSMA (epitomized by IEEE 802.11 DCF) and one instance of TDMA (represented by IEEE 802.15.3). By cooperation we mean basic decode-and-forward relaying as well as more advanced forms thereof based on network coding. The essential features that make each system more or less suitable to support the potentially high performance gains of hybrid ARQ are analyzed and studied by means of extensive simulations. The discussion carried out in this paper shows that centralized systems are able to reap far higher gains from a cooperative paradigm than their distributed counterparts, and investigates in depth the reasons that lead to such different behaviors, prompting also some interesting insights for proper design of advanced hybrid ARQ protocols.

Keywords

automatic repeat request; carrier sense multiple access; cooperative communication; decode and forward communication; network coding; time division multiple access; CSMA; IEEE 802.11 DCF; TDMA; advanced cooperative hybrid ARQ technique; decode-and-forward relaying; hybrid ARQ protocol; medium access control; medium access strategy; network coding; Automatic repeat request; Interference; Payloads; Protocols; Relays; Time division multiple access; CSMA; Cooperation; Cooperative diversity; Hybrid ARQ; Network Coding; PAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2011.062211.100321

Filename

5934683