Information-Theoretic Upper Bounds on the Capacity of Large Extended Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
Olivier Lévêque, I. Emre Telatar · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2005
We derive an information-theoretic upper bound on the rate per communication pair in a large ad hoc wireless network. We show that under minimal conditions on the attenuation due to the environment and for networks with a constant density of users, this rate tends to zero as the number of users gets large.