An efficient routing protocol for wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: routing in mobile communications networks
GloMoSim: a library for parallel simulation of large-scale wireless networks
PADS '98 Proceedings of the twelfth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Location-aided routing (LAR) in mobile ad hoc networks
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Performance comparison of cellular and multi-hop wireless networks: a quantitative study
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
Asynchronous Multimedia Multihop Wireless Networks
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Integrated cellular and ad hoc relaying systems: iCAR
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On the use of multiple hops in next generation wireless systems
Wireless Networks
Ubiquitous computing for remote cardiac patient monitoring: a survey
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications - Regular issue
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Wireless communication has taken big strides every decade as the next generation systems evolved. However, the wireless environment is plagued by several constraints; in particular, resource constraints. The electromagnetic spectrum being limited, the biggest hurdle in the development of advanced wireless systems is the lack of sufficient bandwidth. In the future, the number of simultaneous users and the volume of data communicated is expected to exceed by far the capacity of present day Cellular networks. With the advent of the Internet and wireless connectivity, there has also been an enormous increase in the number of applications that need special support from the network such as QoS guarantees. The research community has long since realized the dire need for networks with higher capacity and this realization has triggered vigorous research in the throughput enhancement of Cellular networks. This paper is a thorough performance study of two such novel throughput enhancement architectures viz. Integrated Cellular and Ad hoc Relaying System (iCAR) and Multi-hop Cellular Network (MCN). iCAR increases the network throughput by relaying excess traffic from a hot cell to cooler cells through a multi-hop path over special routers called Ad hoc Relaying Stations. MCN increases the network throughput by reducing the data transmission power to half of the cell radius, thus increasing the spatial reuse of bandwidth. A common property of these two architectures is the presence of hybrid characters i.e., the two architectures have attempted to benefit by combining the best of Cellular and Ad hoc systems. We identify the pros and cons of each and suggest enhancements based on our simulation results. Through this effort, we bring to light the general issues associated with throughput enhancement and prove the efficacy of introducing Ad hoc characteristics into traditional Cellular networks.