Radio resource dimensioning in a centralized Ad-Hoc maritime MIMO LTE network

This paper provides a statistical model for radio resource dimensioning within one cluster of a centralized maritime LTE Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). The main objective is to compare, for different antenna configurations and different transmission modes, the bandwidth required to be allocated to the Cluster Head (CH) to serve all connected Cluster Nodes (CN). For this purpose, we consider the average statistical behavior of the network and we assume that the active nodes are randomly distributed according to a Poisson Point Process. We base our dimensioning results on the computation of an upper-bound on the resource outage probability. Numerical results based on Monte Carlo simulations validate the analytical model and show the efficiency of the MIMO diversity mode in the radio dimensioning for long range maritime communications.