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Performance Analysis of an Opportunistic Large Array Cooperative Multi-hop Network with Limited Node Participation

This thesis studies an energy-efficient scheme for cooperative multi-hop communications in a finite density opportunistic large array (OLA) network. In a cooperative OLA network, a group of nodes transmits the same message signal to another group of nodes, providing range extension and increased reliability by exploiting the spatial diversity in a wireless system. However, in this thesis, it is shown that a particular coverage and reliability of the network can be achieved by limiting the node participation in an OLA network, thereby providing energy-efficiency. Two types of networks are studied; a one-dimensional linear network and a two-dimensional strip network where the nodes are aligned on a regular grid. The transmissions originating from one level to another are modeled as a Markov process and the underlying transition probability matrix has been derived. By invoking the Perron-Frobenius theorem, the coverage, reliability, and energy-efficiency of the network has been quantified for a given end-to-end success probability constraint and a given signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) margin.