Construction of Small Worlds in the Physical Topology of Wireless Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel scheme for constructing small-world topologies in the physical layer of MIMO wireless networks, leveraging radio broadcast properties to improve network efficiency and reduce power consumption.

Contribution

It proposes a new small-world construction method for physical network topology in MIMO wireless networks, extending prior virtual topology approaches.

Findings

Reduced power consumption in network requests

Effective small-world topology construction for physical layer

Enhanced network efficiency through topology optimization

Abstract

The concept of small worlds is introduced into the physical topology of wireless networks in this work. A. Helmy provided two con- struction schemes of small worlds for the wireless networks, link rewiring and link addition, but he mainly focused on the virtual topology. Based on the broadcasting nature of the radio transmission, we propose a con- struction scheme of small worlds for the physical topology of Multiple- Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless networks. Besides the topology- related topics, we also evaluate the reduction of the power required by a request.