Integrating UMTS and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
WIMOB '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
The Design and Evaluation of Unified Cellular and Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Modeling opportunity driven multiple access in UMTS
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Integrated cellular and ad hoc relaying systems: iCAR
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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We investigate the benefits of two-hop opportunistic relay in time division duplex (TDD) OFDMA cellular network configurations. The paper starts with a short analytical model for the two-hop opportunistic relay. The model expresses the probability of finding a suitable relay node in the presence of lognormal fading and it allows the computation of the expected number of out-of-coverage nodes, as well as the end-to-end spectrum efficiency increase due to opportunistic relaying. The paper then presents results for Monte Carlo simulations of opportunistic relay in some realistic scenarios. Specifically, the simulations consider two scenarios. The first scenario uses the propagation model and a wide-area 19-cell configuration specified in 802.16 OFDMA cellular standard evaluation methodologies. In the second scenario, a Manhattan-like 19-cell topology is used. Our simulations show 11% to 33% in throughput increase when the opportunistic relay technology is used. Our results evaluate the benefits of the opportunistic relay in both scenarios in terms of coverage extension and throughput increase.