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Delay control in MANETs with erasure coding and f-cast relay

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Packet delay control in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is critical to support delay-sensitive applications in such networks. By combining erasure coding and packet redundancy techniques, this paper proposes a general two-hop relay algorithm 2HR-\((x,\tau ,f)\) for a flexible control of packet delivery delay in MANETs, where a group of x packets in source node are first encoded into \(x\cdot \tau\) encoded packets based erasure coding, and each encoded packet is then delivered to at most f distinct relay nodes (f-cast) that will help to forward the encoded packet to destination node. To understand the delay performance in a 2HR-\((x,\tau ,f)\) MANET, we then develop a discrete time multi-dimensional Markov chain model to depict the packet delivery process in the network, based on which closed-form results on mean and variance of packet delivery delay are further derived. Finally, extensive simulation and theoretical results are provided to illustrate the efficiency of our delay models as well as the capability of the 2HR-\((x,\tau ,f)\) algorithm in delay control.

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  1. The packet delivery delay in MANETs is mainly dominated by node mobility, interference and medium contention [16, 37]. Nowadays, computation power is very powerful, making coding/decoding to be processed very fast and thus allowing us to neglect the time cost of coding/decoding process in our delay analysis [7, 10, 16].

  2. In this paper, these network functions, like i.i.d. node mobility, transmission-group based scheduling scheme and packet delivery process of our algorithm, can be easily implemented by a customized C++ simulator (now publicly available at  [39]) without going through a complicated network simulator (like NS2 and OPNET).

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported in part by the Significant Natural Science Foundation of the Education Department of Anhui Province under Grant No. KJ2011ZD06, the Key Program of Natural Science Foundation of Chuzhou University under Grant No. 2012kj002Z and the Chuzhou University Excellent Young Talents Fund Project under Grant No. 2013RC005.

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  1. School of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, 041-8655, Japan

    Bin Yang & Xiaohong Jiang

  2. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, 239000, China

    Bin Yang

  3. School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, 630-0192, Japan

    Juntao Gao

  4. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Yuezhi Zhou

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Yang, B., Gao, J., Zhou, Y. et al. Delay control in MANETs with erasure coding and f-cast relay. Wireless Netw 20, 2617–2631 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-014-0767-1

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