A Route Establishment Scheme for Multi-Route Coding in Multihop Cellular Networks

Since the network topology in multihop cellular networks is flexible, multiple routes from a user station to a base station can be established. To reduce packet reception errors of wireless links, a multi-route coding scheme was proposed. An important issue of the multi-route coding is to develop an efficient route establishment scheme. In this paper, the authors propose a route establishment scheme for multi-route coding in multihop cellular networks. The proposed scheme consists of a route selection method based on the bit error rate of each wireless link and a hybrid-type multiple-tree routing protocol.