Delay performance in random-access networks

DOI10.1007/S11134-014-9408-8zbMATH Open1309.68022arXiv1305.3774OpenAlexW1986809491MaRDI QIDQ475111FDOQ475111

Sem Borst, Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden, Niek Bouman

Publication date: 25 November 2014

Published in: Queueing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore the achievable delay performance in wireless random-access networks. While relatively simple and inherently distributed in nature, suitably designed queue-based random-access schemes provide the striking capability to match the optimal throughput performance of centralized scheduling mechanisms in a wide range of scenarios. The specific type of activation rules for which throughput optimality has been established, may however yield excessive queues and delays. Motivated by that issue, we examine whether the poor delay performance is inherent to the basic operation of these schemes, or caused by the specific kind of activation rules. We derive delay lower bounds for queue-based activation rules, which offer fundamental insight in the cause of the excessive delays. For fixed activation rates we obtain lower bounds indicating that delays and mixing times can grow dramatically with the load in certain topologies as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3774

zbMATH Keywords

wireless networksdelay performancerandom-access algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Communication networks in operations research (90B18)

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