Paper Info
Title
Throughput and Delay Analysis of a Network Coding-enabled Cooperative MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks.
Abstract
Cooperative communications and network coding schemes have been proposed to increase system throughput for ad hoc networks. In this paper, we present throughput and delay analysis of the new network coding-enabled cooperative MAC protocol called NC-MAC, which has been proposed by us in order to significantly enhance system performance. This protocol introduces an approach that can accommodate both cooperative communication and network coding for wireless ad hoc networks by slightly increasing overhead and modifying standards. The protocol's performance is evaluated using mathematical analysis and computer simulation and two performance measures, system throughput and average channel access delay, are used for a performance comparison with previous schemes. It is assumed that all the frames exchanged over a wireless channel are susceptible to transmission errors, which is a new but more reasonable assumption differentiating this research from previous research. Numerical results show this protocol provides significantly enhanced system performance compared with conventional cooperative MAC protocols used in previous research. For instance, system performance is 47% higher using the NC-MAC protocol than when using the rDCF protocol.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3837/tiis.2012.06.010
KSII TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ad hoc network,cooperative MAC,DCF,NC-MAC,network coding
Mobile ad hoc network,Linear network coding,Computer science,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Wireless ad hoc network,Throughput,Vehicular ad hoc network,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
6
1976-7277
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
7.16
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaeshin Jang13310.92
Sang Wu Kim227047.79
Sung-Hong Wie3299.34