Allocating Resources to Multiple Antenna Mobile Nodes in Fading Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks With Temporally Correlated Loss

Overview

Addressing the tradeoff between the Quality of Service (QoS) and consumed power is a critical issue for wireless ad-hoc networks. The loss observed in such networks is often temporally correlated. Multiple antenna systems utilizing space-time block codes are gaining increasing popularity as the result of being adopted by different wireless standards. This paper focuses on optimal resource allocation schemes for wireless ad-hoc networks with mobile nodes utilizing space-time block codes. Relying on adaptive modulation techniques for multiple antenna systems, this paper examines optimal schemes of maximizing throughput under power and loss constraints as well as minimizing transmission power under throughput and loss constraints.