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

DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.896858MaRDI QIDQ3548243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shuchin Aeron, Venkatesh Saligrama

Publication date 21 December 2008

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

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05)

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.

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