On the performance of two-hop relay mobile ad hoc networks under buffer constraint
Jia Liu · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2016
On the Performance of Two-Hop Relay Mobile Ad Hoc Networks under Buffer Constraint by Jia Liu Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) represents a kind of self-organizing network architecture, which consists of mobile devices communicating with each other over peer-to-peer wireless links without centralized infrastructure.Since MANETs can be deployed and reconfigured rapidly at very low cost, they are appealing for many critical applications, such as disaster relief, emergency rescue, battlefield communications, traffic offloading and cover extension for future 5G networks.To efficiently facilitate the application and commercialization of MANETs, understanding the fundamental performance of such networks is of great importance.The available performance studies for MANETs suffer from two major limitations.First, they mainly focus on the asymptotic behaviors of network performance as the network size tends to infinity, while the actual achievable performance is largely uninvestigated.Second, to make their analysis tractable, these studies are usually based on the ideal assumption of infinite buffer, which does not hold for a practical MANET.Therefore, it is important to have a thorough study on the actual achievable performance of MANETs under the practical limited-buffer constraint.iii I would like to express my sincere thanks to all who provide me help, love and encouragement, which certainly make my experience here become one of the most important and wonderful stages that I will never forget in the rest of my life.First and foremost, I am greatly indebted to my supervisor Professor Xiaohong Jiang, not only for his continuous guidance and support in my academic research, but also for his serving as my life mentor to teach me a lot of truth in life.During my PhD pursuit in Hakodate, Professor Jiang guided me to deal with various challenges I encountered such that I can finish this thesis.He and his wife, Mrs Li