Wireless Communications
When Does Opportunistic Routing Make Sense?
PERCOMW '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Modeling and Analysis of Opportunistic Routing in Low Traffic Scenarios
WIOPT '05 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks
Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks
Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks
ExOR: opportunistic multi-hop routing for wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Fundamentals of wireless communication
Fundamentals of wireless communication
An analysis of unreliability and asymmetry in low-power wireless links
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
On Geographic Collaborative Forwarding in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
WASA '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Algorithms,Systems and Applications
Geographic Random Forwarding (GeRaF) for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Energy and Latency Performance
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Capacity of fading channels with channel side information
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cooperative communication in wireless networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
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During the last decade, many works were devoted to improving the performance of relaying techniques in ad hoc networks. One promising approach consists in allowing the relay nodes to cooperate, thus using spatial diversity to increase the capacity of the system. However, this approach introduces an overhead in terms of information exchange, increasing the complexity of the receivers. A simpler way of exploiting spatial diversity is referred to as opportunistic routing. In this scheme, a cluster of nodes still serves as relay candidates but only a single node in the cluster forwards the packet. In this paper, we put forward an analytical framework to optimize the opportunistic communication scheme in order to minimize the energy consumption. Meanwhile, the optimizations of node density and the transmission power are analyzed for different ranges of relay candidates in Rayleigh block fading and Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels. In the energy consumption viewpoint, the analyses indicate that the opportunistic communication is more efficient in Rayleigh block fading channel than that in AWGN channel.