Characterizing the capacity gain of stream control scheduling in MIMO wireless mesh networks
Author(s)
Author(s)
Wang, Y.
Lui, J. C. S.
Date Issued
2007
Publisher
Springer
Related Publication(s)
Networking 2007: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Next Generation Internet (6th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference) Proceedings
Start page
311
End page
321
Abstract
Stream control has recently attracted attentions in the research of MIMO wireless networks as a potential way to improve network capacity. However, inappropriate use of stream control may significantly degrade network capacity as well. In this paper, we provide the first formal study on stream control scheduling in MIMO wireless mesh networks. We derive the theoretical upper bound on network capacity gain of stream control scheduling. We also provide an efficient scheduling algorithm and show that its achieved network capacity gain is close to its theoretical upper bound. Moreover, we point out the poor performance of a previous stream control scheduling algorithm SCMA under the general settings of wireless mesh networks. This formal characterization provides a deeper understanding of steam control scheduling in MIMO wireless mesh networks.
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