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Cooperative Relay Service in a Wireless LAN

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Cooperative Relay Service in a Wireless LAN
As a family of wireless local area network (WLAN) protocols between physical layer and higher layer protocols, IEEE 802.11 has to accommodate the features and requirements of both ends. However, current practice has addressed the problems of these two layers separately and is far from satisfactory. On one end, due to varying channel conditions, WLANs have to provide multiple physical channel rates to support various signal qualities. A low channel rate station not only suffers low throughput, but also significantly degrades the throughput of other stations. On the other end, the power saving mechanism of 802.11 is ineffective in TCP-based communications, in which the wireless network interface (WNI) has to stay awake to quickly acknowledge senders, and hence, the energy is wasted on channel listening during idle awake time. In this paper, considering the needs of both ends, we utilize the idle communication power of the WNI to provide a Cooperative Relay Service (CRS) for WLANs with ...
Lei Guo, Xiaoning Ding, Haining Wang, Qun Li, Song
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where JSAC
Authors Lei Guo, Xiaoning Ding, Haining Wang, Qun Li, Songqing Chen, Xiaodong Zhang
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