Performance evaluation of enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function

Ahmad, R., Zheng, F., Drieberg, M. and Olafsson, S. (2008) Performance evaluation of enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function. In: 14th European Wireless Conference (EW 2008) , Prague, Czech Republic. doi: 10.1109/EW.2008.4623903

Abstract/Summary

In this paper we evaluate the performance of our earlier proposed enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function (ErDCF) for wireless ad hoc networks. 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 reduced energy consumption compared to IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). This is a result of. 1) using relay which helps to increase the throughput and lower overall blocking time of nodes due to faster dual-hop transmission, 2) using dynamic preamble (i.e. using short preamble for the relay transmission) which further increases the throughput and lower overall blocking time and also by 3) reducing unnecessary overhearing (by other nodes not involved in transmission). We evaluate the throughput and energy performance of the ErDCF with different rate combinations. ErDCF (11,11) (ie. R1=R2=11 Mbps) yields a throughput improvement of 92.9% (at the packet length of 1000 bytes) and an energy saving of 72.2% at 50 nodes.

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URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/14527
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Divisions	Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	ad hoc networks, personal area networks , IEEE 802.11, dual-hop transmission, energy consumption, energy saving, enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function, high data rate nodes, low data rate nodes, wireless ad hoc networks
Publisher	IEEE
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