Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2008-07-31
Computer Science
Information Theory
27 pages, 12 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in March 2009, revised in July 2009
Scientific paper
This paper considers the problem of selecting either routes that consist of long hops or routes that consist of short hops in a network of multiple-antenna nodes, where each transmitting node employs spatial multiplexing. This distance-dependent route selection problem is approached from the viewpoint of energy efficiency, where a route is selected with the objective of minimizing the transmission energy consumed while satisfying a target outage criterion at the final destination. Deterministic line networks and two-dimensional random networks are considered. It is shown that when 1) the number of hops traversed between the source and destination grows large or 2) when the target success probability approaches one or 3) when the number of transmit and/or receive antennas grows large, short-hop routing requires less energy than long-hop routing. It is also shown that if both routing strategies are subject to the same delay constraint, long-hop routing requires less energy than short-hop routing as the target success probability approaches one. In addition, numerical analysis indicates that given loose outage constraints, only a small number of transmit antennas are needed for short-hop routing to have its maximum advantage over long-hop routing, while given stringent outage constraints, the advantage of short-hop over long-hop routing always increases with additional transmit antennas.
Heath Robert W. Jr.
Lo Caleb K.
Vishwanath Sriram
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