For centralized selection of communication relays, the necessary decision information needs to be collected from the mobile nodes by the access point (centralized decision point). In mobile scenarios, the required information collection and forwarding delays will affect the reliability of the collected information and hence will influence the performance of the relay selection method.
This paper analyzes this influence in the decision process for the example of a mobile location-based relay selection approach using a continuous time Markov chain model. The model is used to obtain optimal relay policies via a heuristically reduced brute-force search. Numerical results show how forwarding delays affect these optimal policies.