Title :
A step toward ad hoc networks: can relays really improve the performance of cellular networks?
Author :
Wang, Raymond ; Cox, Donald C.
Author_Institution :
Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
Some believe the future of cellular wireless networks could see "cellular ad hoc" networks that use multihop transmission through relays as a means of improving performance of existing cellular systems. We herein consider the question of whether relays can really improve the performance of cellular networks, by comparing a cellular network with no relays to one with relays (with different user distributions) to one with the relays replaced by micro-cell base stations. Metrics such as throughput, delay, number of hops, and cost are discussed.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; cellular radio; relays; ad hoc network; cellular wireless network; micro-cell base station; multihop transmission; relay; Ad hoc networks; Base stations; Cellular networks; Costs; Delay; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Relays; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004. Conference Record of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8104-1
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1292283
