553 research outputs found
Spectral Efficiency Scaling Laws in Dense Random Wireless Networks with Multiple Receive Antennas
This paper considers large random wireless networks where
transmit-and-receive node pairs communicate within a certain range while
sharing a common spectrum. By modeling the spatial locations of nodes based on
stochastic geometry, analytical expressions for the ergodic spectral efficiency
of a typical node pair are derived as a function of the channel state
information available at a receiver (CSIR) in terms of relevant system
parameters: the density of communication links, the number of receive antennas,
the path loss exponent, and the operating signal-to-noise ratio. One key
finding is that when the receiver only exploits CSIR for the direct link, the
sum of spectral efficiencies linearly improves as the density increases, when
the number of receive antennas increases as a certain super-linear function of
the density. When each receiver exploits CSIR for a set of dominant interfering
links in addition to the direct link, the sum of spectral efficiencies linearly
increases with both the density and the path loss exponent if the number of
antennas is a linear function of the density. This observation demonstrates
that having CSIR for dominant interfering links provides a multiplicative gain
in the scaling law. It is also shown that this linear scaling holds for direct
CSIR when incorporating the effect of the receive antenna correlation, provided
that the rank of the spatial correlation matrix scales super-linearly with the
density. Simulation results back scaling laws derived from stochastic geometry.Comment: Submitte
Aggregation Latency-Energy Tradeoff in Wireless Sensor Networks with Successive Inter- ference Cancellation
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On the Accuracy of Interference Models in Wireless Communications
We develop a new framework for measuring and comparing the accuracy of any
wireless interference models used in the analysis and design of wireless
networks. Our approach is based on a new index that assesses the ability of the
interference model to correctly predict harmful interference events, i.e., link
outages. We use this new index to quantify the accuracy of various interference
models used in the literature, under various scenarios such as Rayleigh fading
wireless channels, directional antennas, and blockage (impenetrable obstacles)
in the network. Our analysis reveals that in highly directional antenna
settings with obstructions, even simple interference models (e.g., the
classical protocol model) are accurate, while with omnidirectional antennas,
more sophisticated and complex interference models (e.g., the classical
physical model) are necessary. Our new approach makes it possible to adopt the
appropriate interference model of adequate accuracy and simplicity in different
settings.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted in IEEE ICC 201
Random Access Transport Capacity
We develop a new metric for quantifying end-to-end throughput in multihop
wireless networks, which we term random access transport capacity, since the
interference model presumes uncoordinated transmissions. The metric quantifies
the average maximum rate of successful end-to-end transmissions, multiplied by
the communication distance, and normalized by the network area. We show that a
simple upper bound on this quantity is computable in closed-form in terms of
key network parameters when the number of retransmissions is not restricted and
the hops are assumed to be equally spaced on a line between the source and
destination. We also derive the optimum number of hops and optimal per hop
success probability and show that our result follows the well-known square root
scaling law while providing exact expressions for the preconstants as well.
Numerical results demonstrate that the upper bound is accurate for the purpose
of determining the optimal hop count and success (or outage) probability.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Sept. 200
A Tractable Approach to Coverage and Rate in Cellular Networks
Cellular networks are usually modeled by placing the base stations on a grid,
with mobile users either randomly scattered or placed deterministically. These
models have been used extensively but suffer from being both highly idealized
and not very tractable, so complex system-level simulations are used to
evaluate coverage/outage probability and rate. More tractable models have long
been desirable. We develop new general models for the multi-cell
signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) using stochastic geometry. Under
very general assumptions, the resulting expressions for the downlink SINR CCDF
(equivalent to the coverage probability) involve quickly computable integrals,
and in some practical special cases can be simplified to common integrals
(e.g., the Q-function) or even to simple closed-form expressions. We also
derive the mean rate, and then the coverage gain (and mean rate loss) from
static frequency reuse. We compare our coverage predictions to the grid model
and an actual base station deployment, and observe that the proposed model is
pessimistic (a lower bound on coverage) whereas the grid model is optimistic,
and that both are about equally accurate. In addition to being more tractable,
the proposed model may better capture the increasingly opportunistic and dense
placement of base stations in future networks.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communication
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