A wireless in local loop architecture utilizing directional multihop relaying

Author

Ranganath, V. Mythili ; Manoj, B.S. ; Murthy, C. Siva Ram

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Madras, India

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

2900

Abstract

The use of wireless in local loop (WiLL) has generated considerable interest due to the advantages it offers such as ease and low cost of deployment and maintenance. Directional multihop wireless in local loop (DWiLL), a new architecture proposed in this paper, employs a unique combination of directional multihop relaying in the uplink and single hop relaying in the downlink to reuse bandwidth and thus improve the throughput of WiLL systems. Analysis of the call acceptance ratio (CAR) in a DWiLL system is non-trivial as the Erlang B formula no longer holds. In This work we build multi-dimensional Markov chains to analyze the performance of the DWiLL system. We observe that directional multihop relaying leads to a significant improvement in throughput of WiLL systems.

Keywords

Markov processes; radio access networks; radio links; call acceptance ratio; directional multihop relaying; directional multihop wireless local loop; multi-dimensional Markov chains; single hop relaying; wireless local loop architecture; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Directional antennas; Downlink; Performance analysis; Relays; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2004. PIMRC 2004. 15th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8523-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2004.1368850

Filename

1368850