On Capacity Scaling in Arbitrary Wireless Networks

DOI10.1109/TIT.2009.2025537MaRDI QIDQ4973963zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Urs Niesen, Piyush Gupta, Devavrat Shah

Publication date 8 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2745

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24)

Abstract: In recent work, Ozgur, Leveque, and Tse (2007) obtained a complete scaling characterization of throughput scaling for random extended wireless networks (i.e., $n$ nodes are placed uniformly at random in a square region of area $n$). They showed that for small path-loss exponents $alphain(2,3]$ cooperative communication is order optimal, and for large path-loss exponents $alpha>3$ multi-hop communication is order optimal. However, their results (both the communication scheme and the proof technique) are strongly dependent on the regularity induced with high probability by the random node placement. In this paper, we consider the problem of characterizing the throughput scaling in extended wireless networks with arbitrary node placement. As a main result, we propose a more general novel cooperative communication scheme that works for arbitrarily placed nodes. For small path-loss exponents $alphain(2,3]$, we show that our scheme is order optimal for all node placements, and achieves exactly the same throughput scaling as in Ozgur et al. This shows that the regularity of the node placement does not affect the scaling of the achievable rates for $alphain(2,3]$. The situation is, however, markedly different for large path-loss exponents $alpha>3$. We show that in this regime the scaling of the achievable per-node rates depends crucially on the regularity of the node placement. We then present a family of schemes that smoothly "interpolate" between multi-hop and cooperative communication, depending upon the level of regularity in the node placement. We establish order optimality of these schemes under adversarial node placement for $alpha>3$.

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• Scalable Capacity Bounding Models for Wireless Networks
• Throughput Scaling of Wireless Networks With Random Connections
• Collaborative broadcast in \(\mathcal{O}(\log \log n)\) rounds

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