An algorithm for wireless relay placement

Abstract

An algorithm is given for placing relays at spatial positions to improve the reliability of communicated data in a sensor network. The network consists of many power-limited sensors, a small set of relays, and a receiver. For each sensor, the receiver receives a direct signal as well as an indirect signal from one of the available relays. The relays rebroadcast the transmissions in order to achieve diversity at the receiver. Both amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward relay networks are considered. Channels are modeled with Rayleigh fading, path loss, and additive white Gaussian noise. Performance analysis and numerical results are given.