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Directional antennas improve the link-connectivity of interference limited ad hoc networks

Authors :
Georgiou, Orestis
Wang, Shanshan
Bocus, Mohammud Z.
Dettmann, Carl P.
Coon, Justin P.
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

We study wireless ad hoc networks in the absence of any channel contention or transmit power control and ask how antenna directivity affects network connectivity in the interference limited regime. We answer this question by deriving closed-form expressions for the outage probability, capacity and mean node degree of the network using tools from stochastic geometry. These novel results provide valuable insights for the design of future ad hoc networks. Significantly, our results suggest that the more directional the interfering transmitters are, the less detrimental are the effects of interference to individual links. We validate our analytical results through computer simulations.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, conference proceedings of PIMRC'2015

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1509.02325
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2015.7343501