A Novel Cooperative ARQ Method for Wireless Sensor Networks

作者:Wang Haiyong*; Yang Geng; Gu Yiran; Xu Jian; Sun Zhixin
来源:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015, 2015: 102326.
DOI:10.1155/2015/102326

摘要

In wireless sensor networks, cooperative communication can combat the effects of channel fading by exploiting diversity gain achieved via cooperation communication among the relay nodes. A cooperative automatic retransmission request (ARQ) protocol based on two-relay node selection was proposed in this paper. A novel discrete time Markov chain model in order to analyze the throughput and energy efficiency was built, and system throughput and energy efficiency performance of proposed protocol and traditional ARQ protocol were studied based on such model. The numerical results reveal that the throughput and energy efficiency of the proposed protocol could perform better when compared with the traditional ARQ protocol.

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