Improvement of packet transmission scheduling and delivery rate in wireless Ad-Hoc networks

Abstract

The principal purpose of Ad-Hoc wireless networks is to increase service efficiency in terms of transmission scheduling and packet transfer rate. The approaches that assume frame unicity to satisfy a given set of packets minimize the end-to-end delay. However, they do not guarantee a maximum packet delivery rate due to the difficulty of establishing robust paths for packet transfer across nodes deployed in the network, especially in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The objective is to minimize the end-to-end delay by ensuring the maximum delivery of packets to their destinations. Furthermore, the signal-to-interference-and-noise-ratio (SINR) model is considered to optimize transmission scheduling. In this paper, an optimal node coordinates optimization approach is proposed to extend two recently investigated schemes in the literature (S-RDSP and I-RDSP). The developed algorithms, named S-MPDR and I-MPDR, seek to reduce the end-to-end delay by delivering a collection of inserted packets over a 3D environment while also maximizing the delivery rate of these packets. Desirability functions are used to evaluate the network’s performance in various scenarios involving two different environments, Level 0 and Level 1. Numerical results demonstrate that the developed algorithms outperform both schemes in terms of end-to-end delay and packet delivery rate. In the Level 0 environment, the overall minimum delay and packet delivery rate scores provided by S-MPDR are increased by 28% and 88% compared to S-RDSP, respectively. In comparison, those provided by I-MPDR are increased by 24% and 16% compared to I-RDSP. Similarly, in the Level 1 environment, the scores provided by S-MPDR are increased by 25% and 100% compared to S-RDSP, respectively, while those provided by I-MPDR are increased by 23% and 25% compared to I-RDSP.