Achievable rate and optimal physical layer rate allocation in interference-free wireless networks

Authors:
Tao Cui;Tracey Ho;Jörg Kliewer
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA;Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA;Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Venue:
ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 4
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We analyze the achievable rate in interference-free wireless networks with physical layer fading channels and orthogonal multiple access. As a starting point, the point-to-point channel is considered. We find the optimal physical and network layer rate trade-off which maximizes the achievable overall rate for both a fixed rate transmission scheme and an improved scheme based on multiple virtual users and superposition coding. These initial results are extended to the network setting, where, based on a cut-set formulation, the achievable rate at each node and its upper bound are derived. We propose a distributed optimization algorithm which allows to jointly determine the maximum achievable rate, the optimal physical layer rates on each network link, and an opportunistic back-pressure-type routing strategy on the network layer. This inherently justifies the layered architecture in existing wireless networks. Finally, we show that the proposed layered optimization approach can achieve almost all of the ergodic network capacity in high SNR.