IWFR: Exploiting full-duplex in wireless relay networks

Abstract

Traditional wireless relay networks have large end-to-end time delay and low throughput because of the limit that it can't receive and forward at the same time. In this paper, we proposed IWFR: Immediate Wireless Full-Duplex Relay which exploits the advantages of full-duplex to shorten the end-to-end time delay and improve the throughput. At the same time, we designed a new implicit acknowledgement mechanism, which can eliminate the ACK overheads and evidently improve the throughput of the relay. To implement IWFR, we also modified the full-duplex node architecture to make it support for immediate relay. Simulation shows that IWFR shortens the end-to-end time delay by 60% on average and improves the throughput to 240% of the original relay.