Outer bound to the capacity scaling of three dimensional wireless networks

It is shown that the capacity scaling of three- dimensional wireless networks is subject to a degrees of freedom limitation which is due to the propagation laws of electromagnetic waves. By distributing uniformly an order of n users wishing to establish pairwise independent communications at fixed w...

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Published in2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory pp. 1123 - 1127
Main Authors Franceschetti, M., Migliore, M.D., Minero, P.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.07.2008
Subjects
Current density
Electric fields
Fading
MIMO
Receiving antennas
Upper bound
Wireless networks
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ISBN9781424422562
1424422566
ISSN2157-8095
DOI10.1109/ISIT.2008.4595162

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Summary:It is shown that the capacity scaling of three- dimensional wireless networks is subject to a degrees of freedom limitation which is due to the propagation laws of electromagnetic waves. By distributing uniformly an order of n users wishing to establish pairwise independent communications at fixed wavelength lambda inside a domain of (normalized) volume of the order of n, there are an order of n communication requests originating from the central half of the domain to its outer half. Physics dictates that the number of independent information channels across these two regions is only of the order of n 2/3 , so the peruser information capacity must follow an inverse-cube root of n law.
ISBN:9781424422562
1424422566
ISSN:2157-8095
DOI:10.1109/ISIT.2008.4595162