On the path-loss attenuation regime for positive cost and linear scaling of transport capacity in wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2313-2328

  Xie, Liang Liang ^a,b   Kumar, P R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc networks; Capacity of wireless networks; Cut set bound; Max flow min cut bound; Multiuser information theory; Network information theory; Scaling laws; Transport capacity; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION THEORY;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CAPACITY OF WIRELESS NETWORKS; CUT-SET BOUND; MAX-FLOW MIN-CUT BOUND; MULTIUSER INFORMATION THEORY;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33745146831     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2006.874519     Document Type: Article

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