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ORS-FA: An Opportunistic Relay Selection Scheme for Frame-Aggregated Environments

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In conventional opportunistic relay selection schemes, one or multiple relays with better channel condition are selected. However, if frame aggregation is supported for improving MAC throughput, each relay can have different amounts of data and thus conventional selection schemes may choose a worse relay node only with good channel condition but little data. In this paper, we propose a novel opportunistic relay selection scheme when frame aggregation is adopted. In the proposed scheme, a relay node is selected in a distributed manner by considering the amount of data as well as channel condition, and therefore the most appropriate relay node can be chosen. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms other relay selection schemes, especially when the number of relay nodes is large.

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  1. Note that most rate adaptation algorithms set the transmission rate satisfying the given target error rate and thus the error rate is almost the same regardless of the transmission rate. Therefore, we do not consider the error rate in computing \(\alpha _i\).

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    Taewon Song, Wonjung Kim & Sangheon Pack

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An extended abstract of this paper was presented at IEEE CCNC 2011 [1].

This research was supported in part by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT&Future Planning), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA (National ICT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2014-H0301-14-1015) and in part by ICT R&D program of MSIP/IITP (2014-044-006-004, Next Generation WLAN System with High Efficient Performance).

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Song, T., Kim, W. & Pack, S. ORS-FA: An Opportunistic Relay Selection Scheme for Frame-Aggregated Environments. Wireless Pers Commun 82, 2351–2361 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2351-0

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