ZTE Communications ›› 2008, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (2): 30-33.

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Reliability Strategies for Data Transmission in Wireless Mesh Network

Zhao Nan   

  1. Wireless Pre- research Department of ZTE Corporation , Xi an 710065 , China
  • Online:2008-06-25 Published:2020-03-03
  • About author:Zhao Nan got his bachelor s degree from the Department of Communication Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, and his master s degree from the Faculty of Electrical, Information and Media Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Germany. He is now an engineer in the Wireless Pre- research Department of ZTE Corporation, engaged in study of IMT- Advanced systems. His research interests include wireless communication system architecture and upper layer protocols for access networks.

Abstract: Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a new- type wireless network. Its core idea is that any of its wireless equipment can act as both an Access Point (AP ) and a router. Each node in the network can s end and receive signals as well as directly communicate with one or several peer nodes . One important issue to be considered in wireless Mesh networks is how to secure reliable data transmission in multi- hop links . To solve the problem, the 3GPP system architecture proposes two functionalities : ARQ and HARQ . This paper presents two HARQ s chemes , namely hop - by- hop and edge - to - edge , and three ARQ schemes : hop - by- hop , edge - to - edge , and last- hop . Moreover, it proposes three solutions for WMNs from the perspective of protocol stock design : layered cooperative mechanism, relay ARQ mechanism and multi- hop mechanism.