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Luk, Chun Pong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-125). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background and Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Network --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Opportunistic Routing Protocol Design --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.6 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Opportunistic Routing Protocols --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Challenges of the Opportunistic Routing Protocol Design --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Overview of Existing Opportunistic Routing Protocols --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Forwarding Set Selection Algorithms --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Actual Forwarder Determination --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- Duplicate Suppression Strategies --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.6 --- Variations of Opportunistic Routing Protocols --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Opportunistic Routing --- p.16 / Chapter 2.4 --- Routing in Networks with Directional Antennas --- p.19 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Performance Analysis of the use of Directional Antenna in Routing --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Existing Routing and MAC protocols for Networks with Directional Antennas --- p.21 / Chapter 2.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.22 / Chapter 3 --- Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Network --- p.24 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2 --- Analytical Derivation of the Expected Progress per Transmission of Opportunistic Routing --- p.25 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Problem Formulations and Assumptions --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Reception Probability of a Node in a Given Region --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Radio Channel Models --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Average Progress per Transmission --- p.32 / Chapter 3.3 --- Validation and Analytical Results --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Results Validation --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Baseline Models --- p.35 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Results and Analysis --- p.36 / Chapter 3.4 --- Further Extension of the Model --- p.40 / Chapter 3.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.42 / Chapter 4 --- Opportunistic Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Directional Antennas --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.44 / Chapter 4.2 --- Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Routing in Networks with Directional Antennas --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Network Model --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Radio Channel Models --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Antenna Models --- p.49 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Expected Progress per Transmission with Directional Antenna --- p.51 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- Simulation Setup --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2.6 --- Results and Analysis --- p.54 / Chapter 4.3 --- Maximizing the Gain of Opportunistic Routing by Adjusting Antenna Beamwidth and Direction --- p.60 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Introduction and Motivation --- p.60 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Network Models --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Algorithms --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Results and Discussions --- p.66 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- Section Summary --- p.71 / Chapter 4.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.72 / Chapter 5 --- Impact of Interference on Opportunistic Routing --- p.74 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.74 / Chapter 5.2 --- Interference Model --- p.75 / Chapter 5.3 --- MAC Protocols --- p.76 / Chapter 5.4 --- Simulation Results and Discussions --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Simulation Setup --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Baseline Models --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- Results and Analysis --- p.79 / Chapter 5.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.84 / Chapter 6 --- Threshold-based Opportunistic Routing Protocol --- p.86 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.86 / Chapter 6.2 --- Limitations of Existing Opportunistic Routing Protocols --- p.87 / Chapter 6.3 --- System Model --- p.89 / Chapter 6.4 --- Operating Principles of TORP --- p.91 / Chapter 6.5 --- Protocol Details --- p.93 / Chapter 6.5.1 --- Forwarding Set Computation --- p.93 / Chapter 6.5.2 --- Update of Forwarding Set and Remaining Transmission Counts --- p.97 / Chapter 6.5.3 --- Forwarding Threshold Computation and Details of the Packet Forwarding Process --- p.100 / Chapter 6.5.4 --- Node State --- p.101 / Chapter 6.5.5 --- Packet Format --- p.101 / Chapter 6.5.6 --- Batched Acknowledgement --- p.102 / Chapter 6.6 --- Advantages of TORP --- p.102 / Chapter 6.6.1 --- Distributed Forwarding Set Computation --- p.102 / Chapter 6.6.2 --- Threshold-based Forwarding --- p.103 / Chapter 6.6.3 --- MAC-Independence --- p.104 / Chapter 6.7 --- Protocol Extensions --- p.104 / Chapter 6.7.1 --- Implicit ACK --- p.104 / Chapter 6.7.2 --- Progress Recovery --- p.105 / Chapter 6.7.3 --- Modification of TORP for Large Networks --- p.106 / Chapter 6.8 --- Results and Discussions --- p.106 / Chapter 6.8.1 --- Simulation Setup --- p.106 / Chapter 6.8.2 --- Baseline Models --- p.107 / Chapter 6.8.3 --- Performance Evaluations and Analysis --- p.108 / Chapter 6.9 --- Chapter Summary --- p.116 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion and Future Works --- p.118 / Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusion --- p.118 / Chapter 7.2 --- Future Work --- p.120 / Bibliography --- p.122

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