@inproceedings{f8ebc7ef2555414e9948dca6d5606db7,
title = "On the coded packet relay network in the presence of Neighbors: Benefits of speaking in a crowded room",
abstract = "This paper studies the problem of optimal use of a relay for reducing the transmission time of data packets from a source to a destination using network coding. More importantly, we address an effect that is typically overlooked in previous studies: the presence of active transmitting nodes in the neighborhood of such devices, which is typical in wireless mesh networks. We show that in systems with a fair medium access control mechanism (MAC), the use of a relay in a crowded medium brings forth considerable and unforeseen improvements, including up to 3.5x gains in terms of throughput compared to using only the direct link in some of our examples, and a considerable extension of the operating region where using a relay is beneficial. The problem is formulated as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and numerical results are provided comparing simple, close-to-optimal heuristics to the optimal scheme.",
author = "Hana Khamfroush and Peyman Pahlevani and Lucani, {Daniel E.} and Martin Hundeboll and Fitzek, {Frank H.P.}",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1109/ICC.2014.6883605",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781479920037",
series = "2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1928--1933",
booktitle = "2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014",
address = "United States",
note = "2014 1st IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014 ; Conference date: 10-06-2014 Through 14-06-2014",
}