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Performance of buffer-aided adaptive modulation in multihop communications

Performance of buffer-aided adaptive modulation in multihop communications
Performance of buffer-aided adaptive modulation in multihop communications
In multihop diversity (MHD) aided multihop links, the nodes are assumed to have buffers for temporarily storing their received packets for further transmission at instances of good channel quality. Since adaptive modulation is employed, the number of packets in each time slot (TS) is affected both by the channel quality and the buffer fullness. During each time-slot (TS), the criterion used for activating a specific hop is that of transmitting the highest number of packets. When more than one hops are capable of transmitting the same number of packets, the particular hop having the highest channel quality (reliability) is activated. Hence we refer to this regime as the Maximum Throughput Adaptive Rate Transmission (MTART) scheme. The bit error ratio (BER), the outage probability, the throughput as well as the bandwidth-efficiency of the MTART scheme is analyzed. Our results demonstrate that our MTART regime has the potential of significantly outperforming conventional adaptive modulation. Naturally, the BER is improved by the buffering scheme advocated at the cost of an increased delay. Hence the distribution of the end-to-end packet delay will also be characterized.
3537-3552
Dong, Chen
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Yang, Lie
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Dong, Chen
60381118-c1b8-4c06-aa2c-338413246519
Yang, Lie
ae425648-d9a3-4b7d-8abd-b3cfea375bc7
Hanzo, Lajos
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Dong, Chen, Yang, Lie and Hanzo, Lajos (2015) Performance of buffer-aided adaptive modulation in multihop communications. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 63 (10), 3537-3552. (doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2469287).

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In multihop diversity (MHD) aided multihop links, the nodes are assumed to have buffers for temporarily storing their received packets for further transmission at instances of good channel quality. Since adaptive modulation is employed, the number of packets in each time slot (TS) is affected both by the channel quality and the buffer fullness. During each time-slot (TS), the criterion used for activating a specific hop is that of transmitting the highest number of packets. When more than one hops are capable of transmitting the same number of packets, the particular hop having the highest channel quality (reliability) is activated. Hence we refer to this regime as the Maximum Throughput Adaptive Rate Transmission (MTART) scheme. The bit error ratio (BER), the outage probability, the throughput as well as the bandwidth-efficiency of the MTART scheme is analyzed. Our results demonstrate that our MTART regime has the potential of significantly outperforming conventional adaptive modulation. Naturally, the BER is improved by the buffering scheme advocated at the cost of an increased delay. Hence the distribution of the end-to-end packet delay will also be characterized.

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Published date: 18 August 2015

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Local EPrints ID: 381883
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/381883
PURE UUID: dc4fa4ee-9e54-46e9-b598-1525503189a9
ORCID for Lie Yang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2032-9327
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 14 Oct 2015 14:18
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 02:49

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Author: Chen Dong
Author: Lie Yang ORCID iD
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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