Saturation Throughput Gain in Fixed Multiplexing Radio Networks with Cooperative Retransmission Protocols
Isabella Cerutti, Andrea Fumagalli, George Ho · 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications · 2006
This paper demonstrates that cooperative ARQ protocols have the desirable property of increasing the saturation throughput of fixed multiplexed access radio networks, subject to non-uniform offered traffic. The throughput gain is found to be increasing as the source-to-destination channel quality deteriorates and the source-to-relay channel quality ameliorates. Asymptotically, such gain approaches that of the optimum solution, i.e., the perfect statistical multiplexing.