Continuum percolation of wireless ad hoc communication networks

TL;DR

This paper explores continuum percolation theory to analyze and ensure strong connectivity in wireless multi-hop ad hoc networks, providing a simple distributed protocol that guarantees reliable communication regardless of node distribution patterns.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of continuum percolation to wireless ad hoc networks, enabling guaranteed connectivity through a simple distributed protocol.

Findings

Guarantees strong connectivity almost surely

Works across various random spatial node patterns

Provides a simple distributed protocol

Abstract

Wireless multi-hop ad hoc communication networks represent an infrastructure-less and self-organized generalization of todays wireless cellular networks. Connectivity within such a network is an important issue. Continuum percolation and technology-driven mutations thereof allow to address this issue in the static limit and to construct a simple distributed protocol, guaranteeing strong connectivity almost surely and independently of various typical uncorrelated and correlated random spatial patterns of participating ad hoc nodes.