Capacity Scaling in Ad Hoc Networks With Heterogeneous Mobile Nodes: The Subcritical Regime
Michele Garetto, Paolo Giaccone, Emilio Leonardi · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · 2009
In this paper, we provide the scaling laws for the transport capacity of a wide class of mobile wirelessad hocnetworks. Our analysis generalizes previous results obtained under restrictive assumptions on the node mobility process and overall node density over the network area. The broader family of mobile networks that we consider is able to account for many important characteristics usually recognized in real traces of both human and vehicular mobility. In particular, we consider clustered networks of heterogeneous nodes, in which the shape of the spatial distribution of each node around one or more home-points plays a fundamental role in determining the overall transport capacity. We identify different operational regimes that arise within our general class of mobile networks, and for each regime we characterize the asymptotic network capacity.