Paper Info
Title
Analytic Performance Model for State-Based MAC Layer Cooperative Retransmission Protocols
Abstract
Cooperative retransmission can significantly improve link reliability over lossy and time-varying wireless links. However, comparing retransmission protocols is challenging, and generally requires simplistic assumptions specific to each protocol. In this paper, we develop a general model to evaluate cooperative retransmission protocols with distributed, slot-based contention algorithms. Specifically, we propose to calculate the relay time-out probabilities at a MAC time-slot scale, formulate retransmission outcomes as functions of the time-out probabilities, and derive the probability of a retransmission process for every data frame. We also propose a Markov extension of our model to characterise the dependency between retransmissions of multiple frames. This enables our model to analyse continuous retransmissions of successive frames. Validated by QualNet simulations, our model can analytically predict the probabilities of cooperative retransmissions with an accuracy of 1%. As a result, direct comparisons between cooperative retransmission protocols become tangible, without implementing the full protocol in a state-based simulator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TMC.2015.2409879
Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
Relays,Protocols,Delays,Automatic repeat request,Analytical models,IEEE 802.11 Standards,Probability
Wireless,IEEE 802.11,Retransmission,Computer science,Markov chain,Computer network,QualNet,Automatic repeat request,Frame (networking),Relay,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brett Hagelstein1272.98
Mehran Abolhasan245148.95
Daniel R. Franklin39912.20
Farzad Safaei422533.94
Wei Ni547470.16