Energy Consumption and Resource Utilization in Mechanical Relaying
Panayiotis Kolios, Vasilis Friderikos, Katerina P. Papadaki · 2011
One of the key components of emerging and nextgenerationwirelessnetworksistheintegrationoffixed and/or mobile relays to, inter alia, increase capacity, lessen edge-cell starvation, and permit an energyefficient operation of the network. If mobile nodes are allowed to perform mechanical relaying, i.e., store and carry the information before forwarding it to another relay node or base station (BS), a plethora of different, novel resource-utilization schemes can be explored to increase network performance. We detail in this article a set of techniques based on mechanical relaying for wireless networks and describe the benefits that stem from the use of such relaying schemes in terms of energy consumption and resource utilization in the network. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MVT.2010.939905