A novel approach to power allocation in wireless ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi;Babak Hossein Khalaj

  • Affiliations:
  • Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the role of power allocation in wireless ad hoc networks. First, by modeling the network with a random geometric graph, we propose a two-level power allocation scheme with the total power constraint which expands the min-cut of the underlying random geometric graph. Then, based on available information theoretic upper bounds on transport capacity of wireless networks, we find a new power allocation which improves such bound. As will be shown, the new bound is computed based on the largest eigenvalue of a structural matrix which depends on the random location of the nodes. Finally, it will be shown that both approaches (random geometric graph min-cut analysis and the information theoretic upper bound framework) reveal that it is a fundamental network design guideline that more power should be allocated to central nodes of the network.