Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing in BER Constrained Multihop Networks

Behrouz Maham; Mérouane Debba; Are Hjørungnesy

ChinaCom2008-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium

Research Article

Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing in BER Constrained Multihop Networks

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    title={Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing in BER Constrained Multihop Networks},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-SPC},
    year={2008},
    month={11},
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Behrouz Maham
Mérouane Debba
Are Hjørungnesy
Year: 2008
Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing in BER Constrained Multihop Networks
CHINACOM2008-SPC
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4684995

Behrouz Maham¹^,*, Mérouane Debba², Are Hjørungnesy¹^,*

1: yUNIK – University Graduate Center, University of Oslo, Norway zAlcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPÉLEC, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2: yUNIK – University Graduate Center, University of Oslo, Norway zAlcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPÉLEC, Gif-sur-Yvette, Francemerouane.debbah@supelec.fr

*Contact email: behrouz@unik.no, arehj@unik.n

Abstract

Due to the limited energy supplies of nodes, in many applications like wireless sensor networks energy-efficiency is crucial for extending the lifetime of these networks. We study the routing problem for multihop wireless ad hoc networks based on cooperative transmission. The source node wants to transmit messages to a single destination. Other nodes in the network may operate as relay nodes. In this paper, we propose a cooperative multihop routing for the purpose of power savings, constrained on a required bit error rate (BER) at the destination. We derive analytical results for line network topology. It is shown that energy savings of 100% are achievable in line networks with a large number of nodes for BER = 10¡4 constraint at the destination.

Published: 2008-11-21
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4684995