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On the Capacity of Hybrid Wireless Networks

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On the Capacity of Hybrid Wireless Networks
— We study the throughput capacity of hybrid wireless networks. A hybrid network is formed by placing a sparse network of base stations in an ad hoc network. These base stations are assumed to be connected by a high-bandwidth wired network and act as relays for wireless nodes. They are not data sources nor data receivers. Hybrid networks present a tradeoff between traditional cellular networks and pure ad hoc networks in that data may be forwarded in a multi-hop fashion or through the infrastructure. It has been shown that the capacity of a random ad hoc network does not scale well with the number of nodes in the system [1]. In this work, we consider two different routing strategies and study the scaling behavior of the throughput capacity of a hybrid network. Analytical expressions of the throughput capacity are obtained. For a hybrid network of n nodes and m base stations, the results show that if m grows asymptotically slower than √ n, the benefit of adding base stations on cap...
Benyuan Liu, Zhen Liu, Donald F. Towsley
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where INFOCOM
Authors Benyuan Liu, Zhen Liu, Donald F. Towsley
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