Network coding-based medium access control protocol for cooperative wireless networks

Author

Antonopoulos, A. ; Skianis, C. ; Verikoukis, C.

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Technol. Centre of Catalonia (CTTC), Castelldefels, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

1933

Lastpage

1937

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a novel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Automatic Repeat reQuest-based (ARQ-based) cooperative wireless networks. Our protocol coordinates the channel access among a set of relays that use network coding techniques to minimize the number of total transmissions, thus enhancing the performance of the network in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) metrics. The proposed solution is compared to other cooperative schemes, while analytical and simulation results are provided to evaluate our protocol.

Keywords

access protocols; automatic repeat request; cooperative communication; network coding; quality of service; ARQ-based cooperative wireless networks; MAC protocol; QoS metrics; automatic repeat request-based cooperative wireless networks; channel access; network coding-based medium access control protocol; quality of service; Automatic repeat request; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Network coding; Relays; Throughput; Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ); Medium Access Control (MAC); Network Coding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6364119

Filename

6364119