Area Transmission Efficiency of Single-User and Multi-User MIMO in Grid-Topology Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Kusumoto, Hironori ; Okada, Hiraku ; Kobayashi, Kentaro ; Katayama, Masaaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan

fYear

2015

fDate

11-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we propose area transmission efficiency to evaluate the performance of single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) and multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). The area transmission efficiency is the number of packets that can be transmitted per unit time and per area, and is calculated by considering the multiplexing effect of MIMO and the density of transmitting nodes. The performance of SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO is evaluated and compared in term of the area transmission efficiency in WMNs. As a result, the area transmission efficiency of MU-MIMO can be superior to that of SU-MIMO when the number of queueing packets is small. Conversely, this relationship is reversed when the number of queueing packets is enough large. In addition, by selecting the transmission packets so as to reduce the number of receiving nodes, MU-MIMO is always superior to SU-MIMO.

Keywords

MIMO communication; telecommunication network topology; wireless mesh networks; area transmission efficiency; grid-topology wireless mesh networks; multi-user MIMO; single-user MIMO; Ad hoc networks; Interference; MIMO; Media Access Protocol; Multiplexing; Wireless communication; Wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2015 IEEE 81st

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCSpring.2015.7145710

Filename

7145710