1st International ICST Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications

Research Article

A Cognitive Relay Approach for Multi-hop Wireless Ad hoc Communication

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685249,
        author={Chunyi SONG and Hiroyuki SHIBA and Shigeru SHIMAMOTO},
        title={A Cognitive Relay Approach for Multi-hop Wireless Ad hoc Communication},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COGCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={11},
        keywords={Cognitive Radio Cognitive Relay Heavy Traffic Ad Hoc Communication},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685249}
    }
    
  • Chunyi SONG
    Hiroyuki SHIBA
    Shigeru SHIMAMOTO
    Year: 2008
    A Cognitive Relay Approach for Multi-hop Wireless Ad hoc Communication
    COGCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685249
Chunyi SONG1,*, Hiroyuki SHIBA2,*, Shigeru SHIMAMOTO2,*
  • 1: Global Information and Telecommunication Institute Waseda University 1-3-10 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2: Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University 1-3-10 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
*Contact email: song@aoni.waseda.jp, shiba3@akane.waseda.jp, shima@waseda.jp

Abstract

Owing to retransmission of lost packets and bursty nature of source data, even an ad hoc network with low average traffic may suffer heavy traffic in some certain periods, which in further may degrade system performance, particularly in multi-hop wireless communication. Aiming to provide a solution to above problem, in this paper, we construct a hybrid system based on plural ad hoc networks, which are defined as primary radio networks (PRNs), and a secondary radio network (SRN). In the hybrid system, a cooperative relay scheme based on dynamic spectrum access, defined as cognitive relay, is adopted for retransmitting the lost packets of PRNs. Cognitive relay is carried out by SRN in spectrum hole. Simulation-based evaluation shows that the proposed cognitive relay, compared to existing retransmission protocol, is more effective in providing QoS-guaranteed communication.