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Spatial CSMA: A Distributed Scheduling Algorithm for the SIR Model with Time-varying Channels

Networking and Internet Architecture 2015-04-30 v1

Abstract

Recent work has shown that adaptive CSMA algorithms can achieve throughput optimality. However, these adaptive CSMA algorithms assume a rather simplistic model for the wireless medium. Specifically, the interference is typically modelled by a conflict graph, and the channels are assumed to be static. In this work, we propose a distributed and adaptive CSMA algorithm under a more realistic signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) based interference model, with time-varying channels. We prove that our algorithm is throughput optimal under this generalized model. Further, we augment our proposed algorithm by using a parallel update technique. Numerical results show that our algorithm outperforms the conflict graph based algorithms, in terms of supportable throughput and the rate of convergence to steady-state.

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@article{arxiv.1504.07825,
  title  = {Spatial CSMA: A Distributed Scheduling Algorithm for the SIR Model with Time-varying Channels},
  author = {Peruru Subrahmanya Swamy and Radha Krishna Ganti and Krishna Jagannathan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07825},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

This work has been presented at National Conference on Communication, 2015, held at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

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