On the Asymptotic Stable Throughput of Opportunistic Random Access
Gokhan Mergen, Lang Tong · 2004
Asymptotic stable throughput (AST) is the maximum arrival rate a large network can support while keeping queues bounded. We characterize the maximum AST of random access with distributed channel state information. The result is applied to CDMA networks with matched filter and linear MMSE (minimum mean square error) receivers. Networks with and without power control are considered. It is shown that power control does not improve AST if the channel support is large enough.