Forwarding by retransmission in IEEE 802.11

Author

Loiseau, Lucien ; Montavont, Nicolas ; Lagrange, Xavier

Author_Institution

IMT/TELECOM Bretagne, Univ. Eur. de Bretagne, Rennes, France

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a cooperation-based retransmission mechanism for IEEE 802.11 networks called Forwarding By Retransmission (FBR). This mechanism aims at reducing the mean number of retransmissions in an infrastructure network, or it can be used to forward frames in a small ad hoc network. FBR enables any node that received a frame to participate in the retransmission process, as long as it has a higher probability to reach the destination than the sender. We detail our implementation in NS-2 and analyze the FBR operations in a simple scenario. We show that using only one relay allows reducing the number of retransmissions by 60%.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; probability; wireless LAN; FBR; IEEE 802.11; NS-2 implementation; ad hoc network; cooperation-based retransmission; forwarding by retransmission; infrastructure network; probability; Ad hoc networks; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Network topology; Receivers; Relays; Routing protocols; Wireless communication; IEEE 802.11; cooperation; relays; wireless com-munication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Networks and Telecommuncations Systems (ANTS), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kattankulathur

ISSN

2153-1676

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTS.2013.6802874

Filename

6802874