CSMA networks in a many-sources regime: A mean-field approach

F. Cecchi, S. C. Borst, J. S H Van Leeuwaarden, P. A. Whiting

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Abstract

With the rapid advance of the Internet of Everything, both the number of devices and the range of applications that rely on wireless connectivity show huge growth. Driven by these pervasive trends, wireless networks grow in size and complexity, supporting immense numbers of nodes and data volumes, with highly diverse traffic profiles and performance requirements. While well-established methods are available for evaluating the throughput of persistent sessions with saturated buffers, these provide no insight in the delay performance of flows with intermittent packet arrivals. The occurrence of empty buffers in the latter scenario results in a complex interaction between activity states and packet queues, which severely complicates the performance analysis. Motivated by these challenges, we develop a mean-field approach to analyze buffer contents and packet delays in wireless networks in a many-sources regime. The mean-field behavior simplifies the analysis of a large-scale network with packet arrivals and buffer dynamics to a low-dimensional fixed-point calculation for a network with saturated buffers. In particular, the analysis yields explicit expressions for the buffer content and packet delay distribution in terms of the fixed-point solution. Extensive simulation experiments demonstrate that these expressions provide highly accurate approximations, even for a fairly moderate number of sources.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE INFOCOM 2016 - 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
Volume2016-July
ISBN (Electronic)9781467399531
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jul 2016
Event35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2016 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 10 Apr 201615 Apr 2016

Other

Other35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period10/04/1615/04/16

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