Cooperative Communication Mechanism and Architecture for Cross-Layer Coordination

摘要

This work is focused on three areas all of which are related to the overall theme of cooperation in wireless networks: the relay channel, architectures for cross-layer cooperation, and abstractions that allow developers to express complex communications requirements in dynamic wireless networks. A protocol was designed based on next hop neighborhoods or loose routing which was tested in a network simulator. A new layer for the network stack was specified that focuses on the local neighborhood of nodes and beyond the one hop focus of the link layer.