A "Small World" Approach to Heterogeneous Networks
Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Alex Reznik, Sergio Verdú · Communications in Information and Systems · 2003
We consider a heterogeneous (also called "hybrid") ad-hoc network with wired and wireless links.This type of network was previously considered by Kulkarni and Viswanath in [9] where achievable transport capacity growth rates were demonstrated for a structured wired infrastructure.The present paper improves on this work by demonstrating that efficiency can be increased significantly if the wired links are introduced at random.