Preliminary Results on the Performance of an Adaptive Protocol for Packet Relay with Fountain Coding
Siddhartha S. Borkotoky, M.B. Pursley · 2014
We present our initial findings in the investigation of an adaptive protocol for relaying of information in tactical packet-radio networks. Our protocol employs fountain codes to facilitate a relaying scheme involving two relays for improved throughput. In addition, the protocol adapts the modulation format and error-control code for each packet transmission in response to the time-varying propagation loss in the channel. The adaptation is carried out with the help of simple statistics that can be easily derived from the decoder.