2013/10/06 by Hong‐Ning Dai, Dai, Hong-Ning, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong +3
Computer Science · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.1530
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In this paper, we propose a novel multi-channel network with infrastructure support, called an MC-IS network, which has not been studied in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study such an MC-IS network. Our MC-IS network is equipped with a number of infrastructure nodes which can communicate with common nodes using a number of channels where a communication between a common node and an infrastructure node is called an infrastructure communication and a communication between two common nodes is called an ad-hoc communication. Our proposed MC-IS network has a number of advantages over three existing conventional networks, namely a single-channel wireless ad hoc network (called an SC-AH network), a multi-channel wireless ad hoc network (called an MC-AH network) and a single-channel network with infrastructure support (called an SC-IS network). In particular, the network capacity of our proposed MC-IS network is √(n log n) times higher than that of an SC-AH network and an MC-AH network and the same as that of an SC-IS network, where n is the number of nodes in the network. The average delay of our MC-IS network is √(log n/n) times lower than that of an SC-AH network and an MC-AH network, and min(CI,m) times lower than the average delay of an SC-IS network, where CI and m denote the number of channels dedicated for infrastructure communications and the number of interfaces mounted at each infrastructure node, respectively.