IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Implementation, Experiments, and Practice for Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks
Frame Resource Allocation Schemes that Improve System Capacity and Latency Performance of Time-Division Duplex Multihop Relay Systems
Youhei OHNOTatsuya SHIMIZUTakefumi HIRAGURIMasashi NAKATSUGAWA
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2010 Volume E93.B Issue 8 Pages 2035-2042

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This paper proposes two novel frame resource allocation schemes: Mixed bidirectional allocation scheme and Offset allocation scheme. They improve system capacity and latency performance unlike the conventional time-division duplex relay scheme which divides the frame structure into time segments for the access zone and time segment for the relay zones as in IEEE802.16j (WiMAX) systems. Computer simulations confirm that the two proposed schemes outperform the conventional schemes in terms of throughput and latency. An evaluation of the offset allocation scheme confirms that it improves the total throughput by about 85%, and reduces latency by about 72%, compared to the conventional schemes.

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