Performance evaluation of highway mobile infostation networks.pdf

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF HIGHWAY MOBILE INFOSTATION NETWORKS Wing Ho Yuen WINLAB Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08854 andyyuen@winlab.rutgers.edu Roy D. Yates WINLAB Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08854 ryates@winlab.rutgers.edu Chi Wan Sung Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong itcwsung@cityu.edu.hk Abstract — A mobile infostation network stipulates all transmissions to occur when nodes are in proximity. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of mobility on highway mobile infostation networks. Each node enters a highway section at a Poisson rate with a constant speed drawn from a known but arbitrary distribution. Both forward and backward traffic are considered. For node speed that is uniformly distributed, the fraction of connection time is independent of target node speed for backward traffic, while it increases with target node speed for forward traffic. We also extend our mobility model such that each node changes speed in each highway section. The long run fraction of connection time is dependent on the ratio of transmit range and connection time limit. Forward traffic connections yields better performance when the ratio is smaller than one and vice versa. We also compute the optimal transmit range and the corresponding data rate for both traffic types. We conclude that forward traffic connections yields much higher data rate in most scenarios. I. INTRODUCTION In a mobile infostation network, any two nodes communi- cate only when they have a very good channel. This occurs usually when nodes are in proximity. Under this transmission constraint, any pair of nodes is intermittently connected as mobility shuffles the node locations. The network capacity of mobile infostation networks compares favorably to conven- tional multihop ad hoc networks. In [3] Gupta and Kumar showed that the per node throughput in a multihop network drops to zero at a rate O( W√ n ln n ) in the limit of large n. Thus mul