Performance Study of Dual-Hop Transmissions in Millimeter Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Sakarellos, V.K. ; Panagopoulos, A.D. ; Kanellopoulos, J.D.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2007

fDate

11-16 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The ever increasing demand for multimedia services has led to the extensive use of modern wireless mesh networks, where the transmitted signals arrive to the final destination through cooperative relay nodes. Due to the increased demand for bandwidth, these networks operate at frequencies above 10 GHz where rain attenuation is the dominant fading mechanism. In this paper, the outage performance analysis of a dual hop transmission is presented and a physical propagation model is calculated. Extended numerical results investigate the impact of various operational, geometrical and climatic parameters to the outage analysis.

Keywords

fading; frequency hop communication; multimedia communication; radio networks; radiowave propagation; rain; bandwidth; cooperative relay nodes; dominant fading mechanism; dual-hop transmissions; millimeter wireless mesh in networks; multimedia services; outage performance analysis; physical propagation model; rain attenuation; correlated lognormal channels; dual hop; outage probability; rain attenuation; relaying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-842-6

Type

conf

Filename

4458350