Cooperation-Aware Topology Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Opportunistic Interference Cancellation

Xin AO  F. Richard YU  Shengming JIANG  Quansheng GUAN  Gang WEI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E95-B   No.9   pp.3047-3051
Publication Date: 2012/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E95.B.3047
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Terrestrial Wireless Communication/Broadcasting Technologies
Keyword: 
cooperative communication,  interference cancellation,  topology control,  ad hoc networks,  network capacity,  

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Summary: 
In this letter, we propose a Cooperation-aware topology control scheme with Opportunistic Interference Cancellation (COIC) to improve network capacity in wireless ad hoc networks by jointly considering both upper layer network capacity and physical layer cooperative communications with interference cancellation. We show that the benefits brought by cooperative communications are opportunistic and rely on network structures and channel conditions. Such opportunistic advantages have significant impacts on network capacity, and our proposed COIC can effectively capture these opportunities to substantially improve network capacity.