Multicast Outage Probability and Transmission Capacity of Multihop Wireless Networks

DOI10.1109/TIT.2011.2146030zbMATH Open1365.94127arXiv1002.2655MaRDI QIDQ5273536FDOQ5273536

Chun-Hung Liu, Jeffrey G. Andrews

Publication date: 12 July 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Multicast transmission, wherein the same packet must be delivered to multiple receivers, is an important aspect of sensor and tactical networks and has several distinctive traits as opposed to more commonly studied unicast networks. Specially, these include (i) identical packets must be delivered successfully to several nodes, (ii) outage at any receiver requires the packet to be retransmitted at least to that receiver, and (iii) the multicast rate is dominated by the receiver with the weakest link in order to minimize outage and retransmission. A first contribution of this paper is the development of a tractable multicast model and throughput metric that captures each of these key traits in a multicast wireless network. We utilize a Poisson cluster process (PCP) consisting of a distinct Poisson point process (PPP) for the transmitters and receivers, and then define the multicast transmission capacity (MTC) as the maximum achievable multicast rate per transmission attempt times the maximum intensity of multicast clusters under decoding delay and multicast outage constraints. A multicast cluster is a contiguous area over which a packet is multicasted, and to reduce outage it can be tessellated into $v$ smaller regions of multicast. The second contribution of the paper is the analysis of several key aspects of this model, for which we develop the following main result. Assuming $au/v$ transmission attempts are allowed for each tessellated region in a multicast cluster, we show that the MTC is $Theta(ho{k}^{x}log(k)v^y)$ where $ho$, $x$ and $y$ are functions of $au$ and $v$ depending on the network size and intensity, and $k$ is the average number of the intended receivers in a cluster. We derive $ho,x,y$ for a number of regimes of interest, and also show that an appropriate number of retransmissions can significantly enhance the MTC.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2655

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Information theory (general) (94A15)

Cited In (2)

• Outage analysis of opportunistic cooperative ad hoc networks with randomly located nodes
• Outage Probability Under Channel Distribution Uncertainty

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