Selection diversity forwarding in a multihop packet radio network with fading channel and capture

  • Authors:
  • Peter Larsson

  • Affiliations:
  • Ericsson Research, SE-164 80 Stockholm, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Recent and increased interest of wireless mobile ad hoc networking motivates detailed examination of routing schemes specifically targeted for the demanding constraints that an unreliable, time varying and braodcast like wireless medium imposes. Incorporation and exploitation of radio characteristics are fundamental keys to successful and near optimal operation of routing schemes in a wireless environment. In this paper, for warding methods for wireless mobile multihop networking in Rayleigh fading and non-fading channels are examined. An adaptive forwarding scheme denoted Selection Diversity Forwarding (SDF) is introduced and compared with two classical forwarding methods. It is shown that SDF presents significant peformance improvements. In particular and in constrast to the reference methods NFP and MFR, the performance of SDF is enhanced under fading channel conditions. It is found that local path adaptation has potential to perform better than routing approaches along a single path