Stability Region and Transmission Control of Multi-Cell Aloha Networks

Yunshan Yang; Lin Dai

doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2023.3287538

Stability Region and Transmission Control of Multi-Cell Aloha Networks

Yunshan Yang^*
, Lin Dai

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

As one of the most representative random-access schemes, slotted Aloha has been adopted in various wireless communication networks. A multi-cell Aloha network may easily become unstable as the inter-cell interference grows if the traffic input rates and transmission probabilities of nodes are not properly regulated. Yet how to stabilize a multi-cell Aloha network has remained largely unknown.
To address the above open issue, an analytical framework is proposed in this paper for multi-cell Aloha networks to characterize the stability region of traffic input rates and operating region of transmission probabilities of nodes for achieving network stability. Specifically, the inter-cell interference level is captured by the overlapping ratio of each cell, and shown to be a key factor that determines the stability performance. For a two-cell Aloha network, the stability region of input rates and complete operating regions of transmission probabilities are obtained as functions of the overlapping ratios of cells. For the general M-cell case, a transmission control algorithm is further proposed to stabilize the network only based on the local information exchange between neighboring cells, with effectiveness demonstrated through simulations.
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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5348-5364
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume	71
Issue number	9
Online published	19 Jun 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2023.3287538
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

Funding

This work was supported by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong under General Research Fund (GRF) Grant CityU 11210219 and the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, China, under Grant 2019B010157002.

Research Keywords

Aggregates
Aloha
Analytical models
inter-cell interference
Intercell interference
multiple cells
random access
Receivers
Stability criteria
stability region
Steady-state
Throughput
transmission control

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