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Improved capacity scaling in wireless networks with infrastructure

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Shin, WY; Jeon, SW; Devroye, N; Vu, MH; Chung, SY; Lee, YH; Tarokh, V
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
August 1, 2011

This paper analyzes the impact and benefits of infrastructure support in improving the throughput scaling in networks of n randomly located wireless nodes. The infrastructure uses multiantenna base stations (BSs), in which the number of BSs and the number of antennas at each BS can scale at arbitrary rates relative to n. Under the model, capacity scaling laws are analyzed for both dense and extended networks. Two BS-based routing schemes are first introduced in this study: an infrastructure-supported single-hop (ISH) routing protocol with multiple-access uplink and broadcast downlink and an infrastructure- supported multihop (IMH) routing protocol. Then, their achievable throughput scalings are analyzed. These schemes are compared against two conventional schemes without BSs: the multihop (MH) transmission and hierarchical cooperation (HC) schemes. It is shown that a linear throughput scaling is achieved in dense networks, as in the case without help of BSs. In contrast, the proposed BS-based routing schemes can, under realistic network conditions, improve the throughput scaling significantly in extended networks. The gain comes from the following advantages of these BS-based protocols. First, more nodes can transmit simultaneously in the proposed scheme than in the MH scheme if the number of BSs and the number of antennas are large enough. Second, by improving the long-distance signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the received signal power can be larger than that of the HC, enabling a better throughput scaling under extended networks. Furthermore, by deriving the corresponding information-theoretic cut-set upper bounds, it is shown under extended networks that a combination of four schemes IMH, ISH, MH, and HC is order-optimal in all operating regimes. © 2011 IEEE.

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IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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0018-9448

Publication Date

August 1, 2011

Volume

57

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8

Start / End Page

5088 / 5102

Related Subject Headings

  • Networking & Telecommunications
  • 4613 Theory of computation
  • 4006 Communications engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
 

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Shin, W. Y., Jeon, S. W., Devroye, N., Vu, M. H., Chung, S. Y., Lee, Y. H., & Tarokh, V. (2011). Improved capacity scaling in wireless networks with infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 57(8), 5088–5102. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2011.2158881
Shin, W. Y., S. W. Jeon, N. Devroye, M. H. Vu, S. Y. Chung, Y. H. Lee, and V. Tarokh. “Improved capacity scaling in wireless networks with infrastructure.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 57, no. 8 (August 1, 2011): 5088–5102. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2011.2158881.
Shin WY, Jeon SW, Devroye N, Vu MH, Chung SY, Lee YH, et al. Improved capacity scaling in wireless networks with infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 2011 Aug 1;57(8):5088–102.
Shin, W. Y., et al. “Improved capacity scaling in wireless networks with infrastructure.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 8, Aug. 2011, pp. 5088–102. Scopus, doi:10.1109/TIT.2011.2158881.
Shin WY, Jeon SW, Devroye N, Vu MH, Chung SY, Lee YH, Tarokh V. Improved capacity scaling in wireless networks with infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 2011 Aug 1;57(8):5088–5102.

Published In

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

DOI

ISSN

0018-9448

Publication Date

August 1, 2011

Volume

57

Issue

8

Start / End Page

5088 / 5102

Related Subject Headings

  • Networking & Telecommunications
  • 4613 Theory of computation
  • 4006 Communications engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing