Link-Correlation-Aware Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Networks

Recent empirical studies have shown clear evidence that wireless links are not independent and that the packet receptions on adjacent wireless links are correlated. This finding contradicts the widely held link-independence assumption in the calculation of the core metric, i.e., the expected number...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on wireless communications 2015-01, Vol.14 (1), p.47-56
Main Authors: Shuai Wang, Basalamah, Anas, Song Min Kim, Shuo Guo, Tobe, Yoshito, Tian He
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer networks
Correlation
Links
Mathematical analysis
Packet loss
Protocols
Receivers
Routing
Routing (telecommunications)
Scheduling
Simulation
Wireless communication
Wireless networks
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Summary:Recent empirical studies have shown clear evidence that wireless links are not independent and that the packet receptions on adjacent wireless links are correlated. This finding contradicts the widely held link-independence assumption in the calculation of the core metric, i.e., the expected number of transmissions to the candidate forwarder set, in opportunistic routing (OR). The inappropriate assumption may cause serious estimation errors in the forwarder set selection, which further leads to underutilized diversity benefits or extra scheduling costs. We thus advocate that OR should be made aware of link correlation. In this paper, we propose a novel link-correlation-aware OR scheme, which significantly improves the performance by exploiting the diverse low correlated forwarding links. We evaluate the design in a real-world setting with 24 MICAz nodes. Testbed evaluation and extensive simulation show that higher link correlation leads to fewer diversity benefits and that, with our link-correlation-aware design, the number of transmissions is reduced by 38%.
ISSN:1536-1276
1558-2248
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2014.2329568