An Overview of the Transmission Capacity of Wireless Networks

Abstract--This paper surveys and unifies a number of recent contributions that have collectively developed a metric for decentralized wireless network analysis known as transmission capacity. Although it is notoriously difficult to derive general end-to-end capacity results for multi-terminal or ad hoc networks, the transmission capacity (TC) framework allows for quantification of achievable single-hop rates by focusing on a simplified physical/MAC-layer model. By using stochastic geometry to quantify the multi-user interference in the network, the relationship between the optimal spatial density and success probability of transmissions in the network can be determined, and expressed

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TCOM
• Authors: Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Nihar Jindal
• Keywords: General End-to-end Capacity, Software Engineering, TCOM 2010, Transmission Capacity, Wireless Network Analysis