Mobility increases the capacity of ad hoc wireless networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking - Tập 10 Số 4 - Trang 477-486 - 2002
M. Grossglauser1, D.N.C. Tse2
1AT and T Research Laboratories, Florham Park, NJ, USA
2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Tóm tắt

The capacity of ad hoc wireless networks is constrained by the mutual interference of concurrent transmissions between nodes. We study a model of an ad hoc network where n nodes communicate in random source-destination pairs. These nodes are assumed to be mobile. We examine the per-session throughput for applications with loose delay constraints, such that the topology changes over the time-scale of packet delivery. Under this assumption, the per-user throughput can increase dramatically when nodes are mobile rather than fixed. This improvement can be achieved by exploiting a form of multiuser diversity via packet relaying.

Từ khóa

#Wireless networks #Diversity reception #Base stations #Delay #Throughput #Fading #Interference constraints #Network topology #Cellular networks #Diversity methods

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