Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Strategies and Scaling Laws for the Fixed SNR Regime

DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.896858zbMATH Open1323.94004arXivcs/0608089OpenAlexW3124176337MaRDI QIDQ3548243FDOQ3548243

Venkatesh Saligrama, Shuchin Aeron

Publication date: 21 December 2008

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

Abstract: This paper deals with throughput scaling laws for random ad-hoc wireless networks in a rich scattering environment. We develop schemes to optimize the ratio, $ho(n)$ of achievable network sum capacity to the sum of the point-to-point capacities of source-destinations pairs operating in isolation. For fixed SNR networks, i.e., where the worst case SNR over the source-destination pairs is fixed independent of $n$, we show that collaborative strategies yield a scaling law of $ho(n)=calO(frac1n^{1/3})$ in contrast to multi-hop strategies which yield a scaling law of $ho(n)=calO(frac1sqrtn)$. While, networks where worst case SNR goes to zero, do not preclude the possibility of collaboration, multi-hop strategies achieve optimal throughput. The plausible reason is that the gains due to collaboration cannot offset the effect of vanishing receive SNR. This suggests that for fixed SNR networks, a network designer should look for network protocols that exploit collaboration. The fact that most current networks operate in a fixed SNR interference limited environment provides further motivation for considering this regime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0608089

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05)

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• Scaling Laws for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: An Information Theoretic Approach
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