Title
Multi-hop aggregate information efficiency in wireless ad hoc networks
Abstract
We introduce multi-hop aggregate information efficiency (MIEA), a comprehensive metric that captures several performance-affecting factors of wireless ad hoc networks in a unified formulation. This metric is then employed to analyze such networks with respect to their spectral efficiencies, network loads, and hopping strategies. The analysis reveals that the hopping strategy that achieves maximum information efficiency is that of multiple short hops with no more than a single packet retransmission allowed at each hop, as opposed to the alternative of fewer long-haul hops with multiple packet retransmissions. The implementation of that preferred strategy withstanding, it is found furthermore that the most efficient networks typically exhibit about 65% of link outage probability, which corroborates similar findings obtained in different network settings and using different metrics. Bearing in mind that link outage is a function not only of deterministic parameters such as node density, but also of design parameters such as modulation, our analysis also shows that the modulation scheme that optimizes the aggregate information efficiency is in fact a function of node density. In that respect, our metric and method is shown to be useful to determining the modulation scheme that optimizes the performance of a network with a certain node density.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICC.2009.5199200
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
ad hoc networks,modulation,probability,comprehensive metric,design parameters,deterministic parameters,hopping strategy,link outage probability,maximum information efficiency,modulation scheme,multihop aggregate information efficiency,multiple packet retransmission,multiple short hops,node density,performance affecting factor,single packet retransmission,spectral efficiency,wireless ad hoc networks
Mobile ad hoc network,Wireless,Retransmission,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Interference (wave propagation),Spectral efficiency,Wireless ad hoc network,Spread spectrum
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
2
0.46
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pedro H. J. Nardelli118724.56
Giuseppe T. F. De Abreu240.89
Paulo Cardieri37912.31