Analysis of Multi-Source Multi-Hop Cooperative Networks Employing Network Coding

Author

Aslam, Muhammad Arslan ; Hassan, Syed Ali

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci. (SEECS), Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2015

fDate

11-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of a multi-hop network is investigated in which M sources have independent information to be transmitted to a far off common destination. Linear network coding technique is used by the intermediate relays to transmit the combined information of M sources. Channel model includes Rayleigh fading and path loss. The multi-hop transmission process is modeled by a quasi-stationary Markov process, whereas the relay nodes use decode and forward (DF) mechanism at each hop. By finding the outage probability of each node and studying the properties of Markov process, the network coverage is analyzed for a given signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) margin.

Keywords

Markov processes; Rayleigh channels; cooperative communication; decode and forward communication; linear codes; network coding; probability; M sources; Rayleigh fading; channel model; decode and forward; linear network coding; multi-hop transmission; multi-source multi-hop cooperative networks; outage probability; path loss; quasi-stationary Markov process; relay nodes; signal-to-noise ratio; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Markov processes; Network coding; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2015 IEEE 81st

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCSpring.2015.7145700

Filename

7145700