A Cooperative Automatic Retransmission Request Technique Based on Listening Node Participation Competition

Abstract

To improve the stability of automatic retransmission requests, a competition control method for automatic retransmission requests of cooperative-based listening nodes is proposed. Because the number of source nodes involved in retransmission communication is reduced, the method reduces the communication energy consumption. Cooperative communication consists of two main parts of work. When the source node sends signals to the surrounding nodes, the relay nodes and other nodes receive the broadcast signals. The signals received by both nodes are the same. A node competition mechanism based on the probability of link disruption as an indicator is designed. The node with higher energy is identified as the node that retransmits the signal. An experiment on the performance comparison of multiple algorithms is organized by simulation. The results show that the proposed new strategy has lower values in BER and BER metrics. This indicates that the proposed method transmits high values of signal quality compared to other dominant methods of retransmitting signals. Because the forwarded signal is successfully transmitted and the source node is no longer involved in the retransmission effort. In cooperative communication, the number of retransmission requests is reduced, and the energy consumed by the system is reduced. Because the improved algorithm achieves low-power communication, the proposed algorithm is practical and innovative in cooperative communication.