Network coding-based medium access control protocol for cooperative wireless networks
Angelos Antonopoulos, Charalabos A. Skianis, Christos V. Verikoukis · 2012
In this paper we introduce a novel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Automatic Repeat reQuest-based (ARQ-based) cooperative wireless networks. Our protocol coordinates the channel access among a set of relays that use network coding techniques to minimize the number of total transmissions, thus enhancing the performance of the network in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) metrics. The proposed solution is compared to other cooperative schemes, while analytical and simulation results are provided to evaluate our protocol.