Fair End-to-End Session Rates in Multihop Wireless Networks

Won-Joo HWANG  Cong-Loi LE  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E91-A   No.10   pp.2827-2832
Publication Date: 2008/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.10.2827
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Communication Theory
Keyword: 
multihop,  wireless networks,  rate control,  proportional fairness,  optimization problem,  

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Summary: 
This paper considers a proportional fairness of end-to-end session rates in a multihop wireless network through the rate control framework. In multihop wireless networks, there are two classes of rate control problem. One focuses in optimizing the transmission attempt probabilities at the lower layers, but not the transmit powers while other problem is closely related to jointly optimal congestion control and power control. Proportional fairness is a fundamental concept in flow control problems. In this paper, we give in-depth analysis and show that the optimal solutions of these problems are proportionally fair provided that the objective functions are suitably chosen.