Auction-Style Cooperative Medium Access Control

Author

Feng, J. ; Zhang, R. ; Hanzo, L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of ECS., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

5-8 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A cooperative Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol employing auction-style relay selection combined with superposition coding is designed. In our proposed scheme, the source achieves its target throughput with the aid of cooperation. The potential candidate relays carry out autonomous decisions concerning whether to contend for a transmission opportunity to convey their traffic in the light of their individual energy requirements. Simulation results demonstrate that our scheme is capable of providing both considerable energy savings, as well as substantial throughput improvements for both the source and the relay in a ´win-win´ cooperation regime.

Keywords

access protocols; cooperative communication; telecommunication control; MAC protocol; auction-style cooperative medium access control; energy savings; individual energy requirements; light traffic; potential candidate relays; superposition coding; transmission opportunity; win-win cooperation; Channel estimation; Energy consumption; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Relays; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8328-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2011.6093303

Filename

6093303