An asynchronous multi-relay cooperation protocol exploiting rateless codes

  • Authors:
  • Xijun Wang;Wei Chen;Zhigang Cao

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multi-relay cooperation, which can highly improve the link quality, is shown to be a promising approach for emerging wireless networks. This paper proposes an Asynchronous Multi-Relay Cooperation (AMRC) protocol using rateless codes in order to enhance the bandwidth efficiency of multi-relay transmissions. The protocol performance is analyzed and optimized so as to achieve the maximal end-to-end throughput.