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Coverage analysis for 2D/3D millimeter wave peer-to-peer networks
This paper presents a theoretical analysis for estimating the coverage probability in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) peer-to-peer (P2P) millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless networks. The analysis is carried out adopting suitable link state models and realistic propagation conditions, involving path-loss attenuation, angular dispersion, mid- and small-scale fading, which comply with recent channel measurements. The presented framework accounts in detail for the actual shape of the transmitting/receiving antenna patterns and for the spatial statistic that describes the node location, by considering the widely adopted Poisson point process, the uniform distribution, and the random waypoint mobility model. Analytical expressions for the statistic of the received power and simple integral formulas for the coverage probability in the presence of interference and noise are derived. The accuracy of the obtained estimations and of the introduced approximations is checked by independent Monte Carlo validations. As possible applications in the 3D mmWave context, the conceived mathematical theory is used to discuss the impact of the interference model on the reliability of the noise-limited approximation, and to estimate the average link capacity of an interfered P2P communication
The Intensity Matching Approach: A Tractable Stochastic Geometry Approximation to System-Level Analysis of Cellular Networks
The intensity matching approach for tractable performance evaluation and
optimization of cellular networks is introduced. It assumes that the base
stations are modeled as points of a Poisson point process and leverages
stochastic geometry for system-level analysis. Its rationale relies on
observing that system-level performance is determined by the intensity measure
of transformations of the underlaying spatial Poisson point process. By
approximating the original system model with a simplified one, whose
performance is determined by a mathematically convenient intensity measure,
tractable yet accurate integral expressions for computing area spectral
efficiency and potential throughput are provided. The considered system model
accounts for many practical aspects that, for tractability, are typically
neglected, e.g., line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight propagation, antenna
radiation patterns, traffic load, practical cell associations, general fading
channels. The proposed approach, more importantly, is conveniently formulated
for unveiling the impact of several system parameters, e.g., the density of
base stations and blockages. The effectiveness of this novel and general
methodology is validated with the aid of empirical data for the locations of
base stations and for the footprints of buildings in dense urban environments.Comment: Submitted for Journal Publicatio
On asymptotic validity of naive inference with an approximate likelihood
Many statistical models have likelihoods which are intractable: it is
impossible or too expensive to compute the likelihood exactly. In such
settings, a common approach is to replace the likelihood with an approximation,
and proceed with inference as if the approximate likelihood were the exact
likelihood. In this paper, we describe conditions on the approximate likelihood
which guarantee that this naive inference with an approximate likelihood has
the same first-order asymptotic properties as inference with the exact
likelihood. We investigate the implications of these results for inference
using a Laplace approximation to the likelihood in a simple two-level latent
variable model, and using reduced dependence approximations to the likelihood
in an Ising model on a lattice.Comment: Updated to add an additional example (inference for an Ising model on
a lattice using reduced dependence approximations to the likelihood
Ab initio statistical mechanics of surface adsorption and desorption: II. Nuclear quantum effects
We show how the path-integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics
can be used to construct practical {\em ab initio} techniques for computing the
chemical potential of molecules adsorbed on surfaces, with full inclusion of
quantum nuclear effects. The techniques we describe are based on the
computation of the potential of mean force on a chosen molecule, and generalise
the techniques developed recently for classical nuclei. We present practical
calculations based on density functional theory with a generalised-gradient
exchange-correlation functional for the case of HO on the MgO~(001) surface
at low coverage. We note that the very high vibrational frequencies of the
HO molecule would normally require very large numbers of time slices
(beads) in path-integral calculations, but we show that this requirement can be
dramatically reduced by employing the idea of thermodynamic integration with
respect to the number of beads. The validity and correctness of our
path-integral calculations on the HO/MgO~(001) system are demonstrated by
supporting calculations on a set of simple model systems for which quantum
contributions to the free energy are known exactly from analytic arguments.Comment: 11 pages, including 2 figure
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