Abstract
Maximizing the rate of transmission over a network with fixed amount of power gives the most economic way to communicate in a network. This thesis research investigates accumulative repetition forwarding strategy in a wireless ad-hoc network using cooperative forwarding approaches that allow adaptive power allocation among nodes. We analyze the feasibility and performance gain of channel reuse over this network, where multiple transmit-and-receive pairs are co-exist simultaneously using the same channel. Under this framework, we present the jointly optimal power allocation and channel reuse solution. This solution can be computed in polynomial time and brings significant improvement in network performance.