Mean-field limits for multi-hop random-access networks

Author:

Cecchi F.1,Van de Ven P.M.2,Shneer S.3

Affiliation:

1. Eindhoven University of Technology

2. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

3. Heriot-Watt University

Abstract

Recent years have seen wireless networks increasing in scale, interconnecting a vast number of devices over large areas. Due to their size these networks rely on distributed algorithms for control, allowing each node to regulate its own activity. A popular such algorithm is Carrier-Sense Multi- Access (CSMA), which is at the core of the well-known 802.11 protocol. Performance analysis of CSMA-based networks has received significant attention in the research literature in recent years, but focused almost exclusively on saturated networks where nodes always have packets available. However, one of the key features of emerging large-scale networks is their ability to transmit packets across large distances via multiple intermediate nodes (multi-hop). This gives rise to vastly more complex dynamics, and to phenomena not captured by saturated models. Consequently, performance analysis of multi-hop random-access networks remains elusive. Based on the observation that emerging multi-hop networks are typically dense and contain a large number of nodes, we consider the mean-field limit of multihop CSMA networks. We show that the equilibrium point of the resulting initial value problem provides a remarkably accurate approximation for the pre-limit stochastic network in stationarity, even for sparse networks with few nodes. Using these equilibrium points we investigate the performance of linear networks under different back-off rates, which govern how fast each node transmits. We find the back-off rates which provide the best end-to-end throughput and network robustness, and use these insights to determine the optimal back-off rates for general networks. We confirm numerically the resulting performance gains compared to the current practice of assigning all nodes the same back-off rate.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Software

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