Title :
Reduction of Buffering Requirements: Another Advantage of Cooperative Transmission
Author :
Bader, Ahmed ; Abed-Meraim, Karim ; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
Author_Institution :
King Abdullah Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
Yet another advent of cooperative transmission is exposed in this letter. It is shown that cooperation lends itself to the reduction of buffer sizes of wireless sensor nodes. It is less likely to find the channel busy when cooperative transmission is employed in the network. Otherwise, in the lack of cooperation, the probability of build up of packet queues in transmission buffers increases.
Keywords :
buffer circuits; transmission lines; wireless sensor networks; buffer build-up; buffer size reduction; cooperative transmission; wireless sensor nodes; Aggregates; Detectors; Diversity methods; Gravity; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Randomized cooperative transmission; back-off probability; buffer build-up;
Journal_Title :
Sensors Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JSEN.2014.2378893
