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In this paper, we investigate the performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol at the data link layer. We analyze the impact of network coding in saturated and non-saturated traffic conditions. The cross-layer analytical framework is presented in analyzing the performance of the encode-and-forward (EF) relaying wireless networks. This situation is employed at the physical layer under the conditions of non-saturated traffic and finite-length queue at the data link layer. First, a model of a two-hop EF relaying wireless channel is proposed as an equivalent extend multi-dimensional Markovian state transition model in queuing analysis. Then, the performance in terms of queuing delay, throughput and packet loss rate are derived. We provide closed-form expressions for the delay and throughput of two-hop unbalanced bidirectional traffic cases both with and without network coding. We consider the buffers on nodes are unsaturated. The analytical results are mainly derived by solving queuing systems for the buffer behavior at the relay node. To overcome the hidden node problem in multi hop wireless networks, we develop a useful mathematical model. Both models have been evaluated through simulations and simulation results show good agreement with the analytical results.
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Appendix 1: Proof of Lemma 1
Proof
The sum of steady-state probabilities \(Q(0), Q(1*)\) and \(Q(2*)\) and the ratio of the steady-state probabilities \(Q(1*)\) to \(Q(2*)\) are proportional:
where \(Q(v*) = \sum _{\fancyscript{V}_1^n\in \{1,2\}^n} Q(v\fancyscript{V}_1^n)\)
By solving the equations in Eq. 44,
The arrival rate \(\lambda _R\) in relay node \(\mathbf{R}\) and the departure rate \(\mu _R\) from relay node \(\mathbf{R}\) are balanced in steady-state. They are expressed as:
We can calculate the relation between \(Q(1\fancyscript{V}_1^n)\) and \(Q(2\fancyscript{V}_1^n)\) as Eq. and applying the detailed balance equations in ascending order of queue state length gives these results:
By applying these equations, the following Lemma is obtained.\(\square \)
Appendix 2: Proof of Lemma 2
Proof
From Eq. 7, the steady-state probability \(P_v(0)\) can be expressed as:
From Eq. 7, the steady-state probabilities \(P(n)\) after some algebra can be expanded as:
\(\square \)
Appendix 3: Proof of Lemma 3
Proof
It is assumed that the steady-state probability \(P(0,0)\) is positive, i.e. both virtual queues are non-saturated. Figure 13 illustrates the Markov chain with respect to the number of packets in virtual queue \(v\) at relay node \(\mathbf{R}\). The state transition probability from states 0 to 1 is equal to:
The detailed balance equations are obtained as follows:
Summing all the steady-state probabilities \(P_v(n)\) , the normalized condition and some algebra enable us to obtain Lemma 3 as follows: \(\sum _{n=0}^\infty P_v(n) = 1 \Rightarrow \frac{P_v(0)(1-\tau _R)+\rho _v\tau _RP(0,0)}{(1-\rho _v)(1-\tau _R)} = 1\).\(\square \)
Appendix 4: Proof of Lemma 4
Proof
Based on Fig. 5, we can express the detailed balance equation as follows:
for any \((n_1,n_2)\ne (0,0)\). The above detailed balance equations provide:
for any \((n_1,n_2)\ne (0,0)\).
Summing all the steady-state probabilities \(P(n_1,n_2)\), which are functions of \(P(0,0)\), and the normalized condition enable us to obtain
and then an approximate expression of \(P(0,0)\) is derived as
Appendix 5: Proof of Proposition 1
Proof
First, we note the following relations:
The stationary probability to be in state \(\pi _I\) can be evaluated as follows:
Employing the normalization condition, after some mathematical manipulations, and remembering the relation \(\sum _{i=0}^m\pi _{i,0} = \pi _{0,0}\frac{1-P_{eq}^{m+1}}{1-P_{eq}}\), it is possible to obtain:
The normalization condition yields the following equation for computation of \(\pi _{0,0}\):
Equation 60 is then used to compute \(\tau \) , the probability that a station starts a transmission in a randomly chosen time slot. In fact, taking into account that a packet transmission occurs when the back-off counter reaches zero, we have:
\(\square \)
Appendix 6: Proof of Proposition 2
Proof
According to Fig. 7, there are three durations that the considered node spends at a particular back-off state, \(D_I\), \(D_S\) and \(D_C\). In the idle state, the considered node waits one time slot before decrementing the back-off counter. When the considered node enters the successful state we can compute the duration in this state as follows:
where \(D_I=1\). Similarly, when the node enters a back-off state and finds the channel busy with a collision, this duration can be expressed as:
Let us consider the two cases in detail to calculate the average slot duration for each case:
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Entering from a previous back-off state: The average slot duration in this case can be expressed using \(P_d\) as
$$\begin{aligned} D_1 = \frac{1}{P_{d}}(p_{ei}D_I+p_{es}D_S+ p_{ec}D_C). \end{aligned}$$(64) -
Entering from a transmission state: In this case we can compute the average slot duration as follows
$$\begin{aligned} D_2 = \frac{\overline{CW}-1}{q\overline{CW}}(p_{ei}D_I+p_{es}D_S+ p_{ec}D_C). \end{aligned}$$(65)
Then we can compute the average slot duration as \(\fancyscript{D} = (1-\tau )D_1 + \tau D_2\). \(\square \)
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Mirrezaei, S.M., Faez, K. & Ghasemi, A. Performance Analysis of Network Coding Based Two-Way Relay Wireless Networks Deploying IEEE 802.11. Wireless Pers Commun 76, 41–76 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1485-1
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