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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.8.1811

Performance Evaluation of a New Helper Node Selection Scheme for Cooperative Communications  

Jang, Jaeshin (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Inje University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.17, no.8, 2013 , pp. 1811-1819 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we carried out a study on how to find an appropriate helper node for cooperative communications, the role of which is very import to enhance system throughput of wireless communication system. The busy tone cooperative MAC (BT-COMAC) protocol proposed in this paper is a new cooperative MAC protocol with a reactive helper node scheme and maximizes the benefits of existing schemes while making up for their shortcomings. We conducted performance evaluation of this new protocol using computer simulation experiment. System throughput in bps and channel access delay are utilized as performance measures. We used a random way point mobility model where every communication node moves independently one another, and slow fading channel where every communication node decided its transmission rate with received power basis. Numerical results show that the new MAC protocol enhances system throughput as much as 15% of the existing scheme.
Keywords
BT-COMAC; cooperative communication; helper node selection; wireless LAN;
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