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A cross-layer protocol for exploiting cooperative diversity in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks

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Cooperative communication has emerged to reap the benefits of spatial diversity. To fully exploit cooperative diversity, we propose a medium access control and routing enabled cross-layer cooperative transmission (MACR-CCT) protocol for improving the performance in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks (MWAN). Different from previous cooperative protocols that determine a receiver in one hop according to a non-cooperative routing protocol first and then select a cooperative relay, MACR-CCT selects the cooperative relay together with the receiver in one hop to exploit fully cooperative diversity, so that the receiver is selected for higher cooperative gain and closer distance to destination, and the relay is selected to achieve the better throughput performance while considering transmission error. Furthermore, considering that there are multiple source–destination pairs in MWAN, MACR-CCT takes interference mitigation into account to further improve network throughput when selecting the cooperative relay. Besides, we propose a theoretical model to analyze the throughput performance. Finally, we take advantage of simulation results to validate the effectiveness of our analytical model and show that our proposed MACR-CCT protocol can significantly outperform existing packet transmission mechanisms in terms of throughput and delay under the multi-hop multi-flow network scenario.

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This work is funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2014M561627), Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (Grant Nos. 1308085MF101 and 1408085MF130), and Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Higher Education Institutions (Grant Nos. KJ2014A172 and KJ2013A229)

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  2. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chaohu University, Hefei, China

    Qilin Wu

  3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China

    Fangzhen Ge

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Wu, Q., Zhou, X. & Ge, F. A cross-layer protocol for exploiting cooperative diversity in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks. Wireless Netw 23, 1591–1610 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-016-1238-7

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