2009/09/28 by Kenneth W. Shum, Shum, Kenneth W., Chi Wan Sung +1
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Wireless Networks and Protocols #cs.IT #math.IT
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0909.5007
Submitted to IEEE Trans. Information Theory
arxiv created 2009/09/28 · openalex publication_date 2009/09/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In ALOHA-type packetized network, the transmission times of packets follow a stochastic process. In this paper, we advocate a deterministic approach for channel multiple-access. Each user is statically assigned a periodic protocol signal, which takes value either zero or one, and transmit packets whenever the value of the protocol signal is equal to one. On top of this multiple-access protocol, efficient channel coding and network coding schemes are devised. We illustrate the idea by constructing a transmission scheme for the tandem collision network, for both slot-synchronous and slot-asynchronous systems. This cross-layer approach is able to achieve the capacity region when the network is bi-directional.