The Capacity of Ad hoc Networks under Random Packet Losses

Details The Capacity of Ad hoc Networks under Random Packet Losses The Capacity of Ad hoc Networks under Random Packet Losses

2008-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/0811.3585v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

12 pages, earlier version in ISIT 2006

Scientific paper

We consider the problem of determining asymptotic bounds on the capacity of a random ad hoc network. Previous approaches assumed a link layer model in which if a transmitter-receiver pair can communicate with each other, i.e., the Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) is above a certain threshold, then every transmitted packet is received error-free by the receiver thereby. Using this model, the per node capacity of the network was shown to be $\Theta(\frac{1}{\sqrt{n\log{n}}})$. In reality, for any finite link SINR, there is a non-zero probability of erroneous reception of the packet. We show that in a large network, as the packet travels an asymptotically large number of hops from source to destination, the cumulative impact of packet losses over intermediate links results in a per-node throughput of only $O(\frac{1}{n})$. We then propose a new scheduling scheme to counter this effect. The proposed scheme provides tight guarantees on end-to-end packet loss probability, and improves the per-node throughput to $\Omega(\frac{1}{\sqrt{n} ({\log{n}})^{\frac{\alpha{{+2}}}{2(\alpha-2)}}})$ where $\alpha>2$ is the path loss exponent.

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