Multihop Diversity in Wideband OFDM Systems: The Impact of Spatial Reuse and Frequency Selectivity
Ozgur Oyman, J. Nicholas Laneman

TL;DR
This paper analyzes how multihop diversity benefits in wideband OFDM wireless networks are influenced by spatial reuse and frequency selectivity, focusing on energy and spectral efficiency tradeoffs in large-hop regimes.
Contribution
It characterizes the impact of routing with spatial reuse on multihop diversity and performance measures in wideband OFDM systems under realistic channel conditions.
Findings
Multihop diversity benefits are achievable with spatial reuse in wideband OFDM.
Performance convergence occurs with a large number of hops.
Routing strategies significantly influence energy and spectral efficiency.
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to establish which practical routing schemes for wireless networks are most suitable for wideband systems in the power-limited regime, which is, for example, a practically relevant mode of operation for the analysis of ultrawideband (UWB) mesh networks. For this purpose, we study the tradeoff between energy efficiency and spectral efficiency (known as the power-bandwidth tradeoff) in a wideband linear multihop network in which transmissions employ orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation and are affected by quasi-static, frequency-selective fading. Considering open-loop (fixed-rate) and closed-loop (rate-adaptive) multihop relaying techniques, we characterize the impact of routing with spatial reuse on the statistical properties of the end-to-end conditional mutual information (conditioned on the specific values of the channel fading…
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