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Throughput-Delay-Reliability Tradeoff with ARQ in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Information Theory 2010-04-27 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Delay-reliability (D-R), and throughput-delay-reliability (T-D-R) tradeoffs in an ad hoc network are derived for single hop and multi-hop transmission with automatic repeat request (ARQ) on each hop. The delay constraint is modeled by assuming that each packet is allowed at most DD retransmissions end-to-end, and the reliability is defined as the probability that the packet is successfully decoded in at most DD retransmissions. The throughput of the ad hoc network is characterized by the transmission capacity, which is defined to be the maximum allowable density of transmitting nodes satisfying a per transmitter receiver rate, and an outage probability constraint, multiplied with the rate of transmission and the success probability. Given an end-to-end retransmission constraint of DD, the optimal allocation of the number of retransmissions allowed at each hop is derived that maximizes a lower bound on the transmission capacity. Optimizing over the number of hops, single hop transmission is shown to be optimal for maximizing a lower bound on the transmission capacity in the sparse network regime.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4432,
  title  = {Throughput-Delay-Reliability Tradeoff with ARQ in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks},
  author = {Rahul Vaze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4432},
  year   = {2010}
}
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