Analysis of Enhanced Relay-Enabled Distributed Coordination Function under Transmission Errors

This paper analyzes the performance of enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function (ErDCF) for wireless ad hoc networks under transmission errors. The idea of ErDCF is to use high data rate nodes to work as relays for the low data rate nodes. ErDCF achieves higher throughput and reduces...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Rizwan, Zheng, Fu-Chun, Drieberg , Micheal, Fitch, Michael
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5379103
http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3661/
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Summary:This paper analyzes the performance of enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function (ErDCF) for wireless ad hoc networks under transmission errors. The idea of ErDCF is to use high data rate nodes to work as relays for the low data rate nodes. ErDCF achieves higher throughput and reduces energy consumption compared to IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) in an ideal channel environment. However, there is a possibility that this expected gain may decrease in the presence of transmission errors. In this work, we modify the saturation throughput model of ErDCF to accurately reflect the impact of transmission errors under different rate combinations. It turns out that the throughput gain of ErDCF can still be maintained under reasonable link quality and distance.