Delay-Sensitive Retransmission Method Based on Network Coding in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Yosuke Tanigawa, Jong‐Ok Kim, Hideki Tode · 2010
Recently, network coding (NC) has been popularly applied to wireless networks in order to improve channel utilization. In wireless LANs, when NC is applied to packet retransmission, a base station can simultaneously retransmit multiple packets destined to different wireless stations for a single retransmission trial. On the other hand, NC creates additional packet delay at both base station and wireless stations, and hence, packet transfer delay may increase seriously. However, existing NC-based retransmission methods do not consider this additional delay explicitly. In addition, when the number of flows is small, NC exhibits less benefits because the chances of NC-based retransmission are highly reduced. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel NC-based retransmission method in order to improve packet transfer delay and jitter of received packets. Moreover, to achieve further improvement of delay, jitter and retransmission efficiency, we propose a retransmission method in which NC-based retransmission cooperates with the typical ARQ method. We overcome the disadvantage of NC-based retransmission by combining with ARQ cooperatively. Finally, we show the effectiveness of the proposed methods by extensive computer simulation.