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Spatial networks with wireless applications
Many networks have nodes located in physical space, with links more common
between closely spaced pairs of nodes. For example, the nodes could be wireless
devices and links communication channels in a wireless mesh network. We
describe recent work involving such networks, considering effects due to the
geometry (convex,non-convex, and fractal), node distribution,
distance-dependent link probability, mobility, directivity and interference.Comment: Review article- an amended version with a new title from the origina
Stochastic Geometry Modeling of Cellular Networks: Analysis, Simulation and Experimental Validation
Due to the increasing heterogeneity and deployment density of emerging
cellular networks, new flexible and scalable approaches for their modeling,
simulation, analysis and optimization are needed. Recently, a new approach has
been proposed: it is based on the theory of point processes and it leverages
tools from stochastic geometry for tractable system-level modeling, performance
evaluation and optimization. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of this
emerging abstraction for modeling cellular networks, by explicitly taking
realistic base station locations, building footprints, spatial blockages and
antenna radiation patterns into account. More specifically, the base station
locations and the building footprints are taken from two publicly available
databases from the United Kingdom. Our study confirms that the abstraction
model based on stochastic geometry is capable of accurately modeling the
communication performance of cellular networks in dense urban environments.Comment: submitted for publicatio
Area Spectral Efficiency Analysis and Energy Consumption Minimization in Multi-Antenna Poisson Distributed Networks
This paper aims at answering two fundamental questions: how area spectral
efficiency (ASE) behaves with different system parameters; how to design an
energy-efficient network. Based on stochastic geometry, we obtain the
expression and a tight lower-bound for ASE of Poisson distributed networks
considering multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) transmission. With the help of the
lower-bound, some interesting results are observed. These results are validated
via numerical results for the original expression. We find that ASE can be
viewed as a concave function with respect to the number of antennas and active
users. For the purpose of maximizing ASE, we demonstrate that the optimal
number of active users is a fixed portion of the number of antennas. With
optimal number of active users, we observe that ASE increases linearly with the
number of antennas. Another work of this paper is joint optimization of the
base station (BS) density, the number of antennas and active users to minimize
the network energy consumption. It is discovered that the optimal combination
of the number of antennas and active users is the solution that maximizes the
energy-efficiency. Besides the optimal algorithm, we propose a suboptimal
algorithm to reduce the computational complexity, which can achieve near
optimal performance.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Major
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Power Beacon-Assisted Millimeter Wave Ad Hoc Networks
Deployment of low cost power beacons (PBs) is a promising solution for
dedicated wireless power transfer (WPT) in future wireless networks. In this
paper, we present a tractable model for PB-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave)
wireless ad hoc networks, where each transmitter (TX) harvests energy from all
PBs and then uses the harvested energy to transmit information to its desired
receiver. Our model accounts for realistic aspects of WPT and mmWave
transmissions, such as power circuit activation threshold, allowed maximum
harvested power, maximum transmit power, beamforming and blockage. Using
stochastic geometry, we obtain the Laplace transform of the aggregate received
power at the TX to calculate the power coverage probability. We approximate and
discretize the transmit power of each TX into a finite number of discrete power
levels in log scale to compute the channel and total coverage probability. We
compare our analytical predictions to simulations and observe good accuracy.
The proposed model allows insights into effect of system parameters, such as
transmit power of PBs, PB density, main lobe beam-width and power circuit
activation threshold on the overall coverage probability. The results confirm
that it is feasible and safe to power TXs in a mmWave ad hoc network using PBs.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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