ZOU Shi-hong, WANG Wen-dong, LI Bo, et al. A Relay Aided Media Access Protocol for Wireless Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2006, 34(1): 11-18.
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ZOU Shi-hong, WANG Wen-dong, LI Bo, et al. A Relay Aided Media Access Protocol for Wireless Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2006, 34(1): 11-18.DOI:
A Relay Aided Media Access Protocol for Wireless Networks
This paper introduces a Relay Aided Media Access (RAMA) protocol by taking advantage of the existence of multihop high rate links.The mechanism in RAMA protocol is demonstrated by replacing one low rate link with two high rate links with the assistance of relay.One of the key novelties in the proposed RAMA protocol is that the transmission from the immediate relay node to the destination node is free of contention.Results from analysis and simulations show that RAMA can significantly improve the network throughput and reduces the delay.