Analysis of throughput gains from relays in cellular networks

Author

Mukherjee, Sayandev ; Viswanathan, Harish

Author_Institution

Lab. of Wireless Res., Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, NJ

Volume

6

fYear

2005

fDate

2-2 Dec. 2005

Lastpage

3476

Abstract

Multihop wireless networking has traditionally been viewed in the context of ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks. We consider the application of multihop networking in wide area cellular systems and evaluate potential capacity enhancements. A cellular system with relays that store and forward information from the base station to the terminals on the downlink is considered. With geographical routing for uniform placement of relays within a cell, upper bounds to throughput gains are derived for a transmission scheme that guarantees equal long term throughput to all users. Our results show that, for a large number of hops, the gain is limited by the rate on the links between the base and the closest set of relays

Keywords

ad hoc networks; cellular radio; radio links; relays; telecommunication network routing; wide area networks; ad-hoc networks; capacity enhancements; cellular networks; geographical routing; multihop wireless networking; peer-to-peer networks; relay uniform placement; wide area cellular systems; Base stations; Cellular networks; Downlink; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Peer to peer computing; Relays; Routing; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. GLOBECOM '05. IEEE

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9414-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1578418

Filename

1578418