Cooperative Communication Mechanism and Architecture for Cross-Layer Coordination

Abstract

This work is focused on three areas all of which are related to the overall theme of cooperation in wireless networks: the relay channel, architectures for cross-layer cooperation, and abstractions that allow developers to express complex communications requirements in dynamic wireless networks. A protocol was designed based on next hop neighborhoods or loose routing which was tested in a network simulator. A new layer for the network stack was specified that focuses on the local neighborhood of nodes and beyond the one hop focus of the link layer.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA476829

Entities

People

  • Christine Julien
  • Scott Nettles

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Arlington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Digital Communications
  • Mesh Networks
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Sensor Networks
  • Signal Processing
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Software Design
  • Transport Protocols
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking