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Multihop Diversity in Wideband OFDM Systems: The Impact of Spatial Reuse and Frequency Selectivity
The goal of this paper is to establish which practical routing schemes for
wireless networks are most suitable for wideband systems in the power-limited
regime, which is, for example, a practically relevant mode of operation for the
analysis of ultrawideband (UWB) mesh networks. For this purpose, we study the
tradeoff between energy efficiency and spectral efficiency (known as the
power-bandwidth tradeoff) in a wideband linear multihop network in which
transmissions employ orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
modulation and are affected by quasi-static, frequency-selective fading.
Considering open-loop (fixed-rate) and closed-loop (rate-adaptive) multihop
relaying techniques, we characterize the impact of routing with spatial reuse
on the statistical properties of the end-to-end conditional mutual information
(conditioned on the specific values of the channel fading parameters and
therefore treated as a random variable) and on the energy and spectral
efficiency measures of the wideband regime. Our analysis particularly deals
with the convergence of these end-to-end performance measures in the case of
large number of hops, i.e., the phenomenon first observed in \cite{Oyman06b}
and named as ``multihop diversity''. Our results demonstrate the realizability
of the multihop diversity advantages in the case of routing with spatial reuse
for wideband OFDM systems under wireless channel effects such as path-loss and
quasi-static frequency-selective multipath fading.Comment: 6 pages, to be published in Proc. 2008 IEEE International Symposium
on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (IEEE ISSSTA'08), Bologna,
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Green Communication via Power-optimized HARQ Protocols
Recently, efficient use of energy has become an essential research topic for
green communication. This paper studies the effect of optimal power controllers
on the performance of delay-sensitive communication setups utilizing hybrid
automatic repeat request (HARQ). The results are obtained for repetition time
diversity (RTD) and incremental redundancy (INR) HARQ protocols. In all cases,
the optimal power allocation, minimizing the outage-limited average
transmission power, is obtained under both continuous and bursting
communication models. Also, we investigate the system throughput in different
conditions. The results indicate that the power efficiency is increased
substantially, if adaptive power allocation is utilized. For instance, assume
Rayleigh-fading channel, a maximum of two (re)transmission rounds with rates
nats-per-channel-use and an outage probability constraint
. Then, compared to uniform power allocation, optimal power
allocation in RTD reduces the average power by 9 and 11 dB in the bursting and
continuous communication models, respectively. In INR, these values are
obtained to be 8 and 9 dB, respectively.Comment: Accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technolog
On the Performance of the Relay-ARQ Networks
This paper investigates the performance of relay networks in the presence of
hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback and adaptive power allocation.
The throughput and the outage probability of different hybrid ARQ protocols are
studied for independent and spatially-correlated fading channels. The results
are obtained for the cases where there is a sum power constraint on the source
and the relay or when each of the source and the relay are power-limited
individually. With adaptive power allocation, the results demonstrate the
efficiency of relay-ARQ techniques in different conditions.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. 201
On the Energy Efficiency of LT Codes in Proactive Wireless Sensor Networks
This paper presents an in-depth analysis on the energy efficiency of Luby
Transform (LT) codes with Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation in a Wireless
Sensor Network (WSN) over Rayleigh fading channels with pathloss. We describe a
proactive system model according to a flexible duty-cycling mechanism utilized
in practical sensor apparatus. The present analysis is based on realistic
parameters including the effect of channel bandwidth used in the IEEE 802.15.4
standard, active mode duration and computation energy. A comprehensive
analysis, supported by some simulation studies on the probability mass function
of the LT code rate and coding gain, shows that among uncoded FSK and various
classical channel coding schemes, the optimized LT coded FSK is the most
energy-efficient scheme for distance d greater than the pre-determined
threshold level d_T , where the optimization is performed over coding and
modulation parameters. In addition, although the optimized uncoded FSK
outperforms coded schemes for d < d_T , the energy gap between LT coded and
uncoded FSK is negligible for d < d_T compared to the other coded schemes.
These results come from the flexibility of the LT code to adjust its rate to
suit instantaneous channel conditions, and suggest that LT codes are beneficial
in practical low-power WSNs with dynamic position sensor nodes.Comment: accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processin
On the Required Number of Antennas in a Point-to-Point Large-but-Finite MIMO System: Outage-Limited Scenario
This paper investigates the performance of the point-to-point
multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of a large but
finite numbers of antennas at the transmitters and/or receivers. Considering
the cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, we
determine the minimum numbers of the transmit/receive antennas which are
required to satisfy different outage probability constraints. Our results are
obtained for different fading conditions and the effect of the power amplifiers
efficiency on the performance of the MIMO-HARQ systems is analyzed. Moreover,
we derive closed-form expressions for the asymptotic performance of the
MIMO-HARQ systems when the number of antennas increases. Our analytical and
numerical results show that different outage requirements can be satisfied with
relatively few transmit/receive antennas.Comment: Under review in IEEE Transactions on Communication
Energy-delay bounds analysis in wireless multi-hop networks with unreliable radio links
Energy efficiency and transmission delay are very important parameters for
wireless multi-hop networks. Previous works that study energy efficiency and
delay are based on the assumption of reliable links. However, the unreliability
of the channel is inevitable in wireless multi-hop networks. This paper
investigates the trade-off between the energy consumption and the end-to-end
delay of multi-hop communications in a wireless network using an unreliable
link model. It provides a closed form expression of the lower bound on the
energy-delay trade-off for different channel models (AWGN, Raleigh flat fading
and Nakagami block-fading) in a linear network. These analytical results are
also verified in 2-dimensional Poisson networks using simulations. The main
contribution of this work is the use of a probabilistic link model to define
the energy efficiency of the system and capture the energy-delay trade-offs.
Hence, it provides a more realistic lower bound on both the energy efficiency
and the energy-delay trade-off since it does not restrict the study to the set
of perfect links as proposed in earlier works
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