Cooperation and directionality: Friends or foes?

Zhifeng Tao, Thanasis Korakis, Feilu Liu, Shivendra Panwar, Jinyun Zhang, Leandros Tassiulas

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Abstract

As the two key technologies that have the potential to reshape the landscape of next-generation wireless network, cooperative communications and directional antenna system so far have been developed in parallel, if not in isolation from each other. In order to establish a thorough comparison between the relative system performance of cooperative diversity and directional transmission in an adhoc environment, we design and quantitatively evaluate three medium access control protocols, namely O-CoopMAC, D-NoopMAC and D-CoopMAC. The study yields the unexpected yet crucial observation that cooperative forwarding significantly limits the spatial reuse created by transmission directionality, and therefore can appreciably degrade the performance of a directional system with a sufficiently narrow antenna beam. To the best knowledge of the authors, this is the first paper to systematically compare the performance of these two technologies in an adhoc environment and reveal the key fact that cooperation and directionality can be rather foes than friends!

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICC 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Proceedings
Pages4424-4430
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
EventIEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2008 - Beijing, China
Duration: May 19 2008May 23 2008

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)0536-1486

Other

OtherIEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2008
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period5/19/085/23/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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