Analysis of communication traffic characteristics of a cellular system with ad hoc networking

In cellular communication systems, every call is carried through a base station, and when the communication path to the base station is obstructed by buildings or other obstacles, the communication may not be established. It is expected that ad hoc relaying of such an obstructed call will increase t...

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Published in:Electronics & communications in Japan. Part 1, Communications Communications, 2003-11, Vol.86 (11), p.1-10
Main Authors: Tanaka, Akio, Nakano, Keisuke, Sengoku, Masakazu, Shinoda, Shoji
Format: Article
Language:English
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ad hoc network
cellular system
communication traffic
network
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Summary:In cellular communication systems, every call is carried through a base station, and when the communication path to the base station is obstructed by buildings or other obstacles, the communication may not be established. It is expected that ad hoc relaying of such an obstructed call will increase the performance of the network as a whole. This paper discusses how to theoretically analyze the communication traffic performance of a cellular system with ad hoc networking and shows that the network performance can be increased even with relatively small range of relaying capability of terminals. This paper also shows by simulation that multihop relaying does not give significantly greater performance improvement than that by two‐hop relaying. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 86(11): 1–10, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecja.10135
ISSN:8756-6621
1520-6424
DOI:10.1002/ecja.10135