LASER: A load-aware spectral-efficient routing metric for path selection in IEEE 802.16j multi-hop relay networks

  • Authors:

  • Sheng-Shih Wang;Chan-Ying Lien;Wen-Hwa Liao;Kuei-Ping Shih

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Management, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Hsinchu 304, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamshui 251, Taipei, Taiwan;Department of Information Management, Tatung University, Taipei 104, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamshui 251, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

For coverage extension and throughput enhancement, the IEEE 802.16j task group has developed a novel multi-hop relay network architecture to enable typical IEEE 802.16 networks to achieve data transmission between base stations and mobile stations via a multi-hop path with relay stations deployment. How to determine an effective path for throughput gain and overhead reduction is emerging and crucial in IEEE 802.16 multi-hop relay networks. This paper introduces a load-aware spectral-efficient routing metric, called LASER, to evaluate paths, and proposes an efficient scheme to determine a proper path. Based on the LASER metric, the proposed path selection scheme formulates the path cost as the summation of cost of each link, and the path with the minimum cost will be selected as the appropriate one. Simulation results show that the proposed LASER-based path selection scheme significantly outperforms existing path selection schemes in network throughput and map overhead.