An Automatic Cooperative Retransmission MAC Protocol in Wireless Local Area Networks
Conference: European Wireless 2009 - 15th European Wireless Conference
05/17/2009 - 05/20/2009 at Aalborg, Denmark
Proceedings: European Wireless 2009
Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
He, Xin; Li, Frank Y. (Dept. of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder (UiA), 4898 Grimstad, Norway)
Abstract:
Existing solutions for cooperation in wireless networks either require simultaneous transmission of source and relay nodes or impose major modifications to original MAC protocols. In this paper, a new efficient retransmission MAC protocol is proposed for IEEE 802.11 based cooperation communications, with minimum modifications to the DCF scheme. Throughput and access delay performance of the proposed protocols is analyzed in error-prone and highly temporally correlated channels. Numerical results show that significant benefits can be achieved with our cooperative protocol, compared with the legacy schemes.