Fundamentals of wireless communication
Fundamentals of wireless communication
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
The capacity of wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: Efficient protocols and outage behavior
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
On distances in uniformly random networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Hierarchical Cooperation Achieves Optimal Capacity Scaling in Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cooperative communication in wireless networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Rethinking information theory for mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Expected interference in wireless networks with geometric path loss: a closed-form approximation
IEEE Communications Letters
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Interference limits throughput in wireless networks. To protect themselves against interference, many wireless protocols create areas around receivers in which no node is allowed to transmit. If such an exclusion area is small, more transmissions can proceed simultaneously but observe higher interference, creating a tradeoff between network capacity and link capacity. Link capacity can be improved by cooperative diversity techniques, exploiting stochastically independent retransmissions by a relay node. But for this relay to work, it has to receive the original transmission, again consuming space. Hence, cooperation influences the network/link capacity tradeoff as it invests more space to increase link capacity. This paper characterizes the tradeoff when cooperation is used. We derive a closed-form solution for the expected total interference caused by the k-closest nodes. We use this result to reformulate the outage capacity equations for direct, Non-Cooperative Relaying (NCR), and Selection Decode-and-Forward (SDF) transmission as functions of exclusion areas. We find that by using SDF, capacity gains over direct transmission are highest when exclusion areas are smallest. This result suggests that cooperation is a key technique to improve capacity in networks with powerful/sophisticated receivers that are able to cope well with high interference.