Information transmission bounds between moving terminals
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Author(s)
Faqir, Omar J
Kerrigan, Eric C
Gunduz, Deniz
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In networks of mobile autonomous agents, e.g. for data acquisition, we may wish to maximize data transfer or to reliably transfer a minimum amount of data, subject to quality of service or energy constraints. These requirements can be guaranteed through both offline node design/specifications and online trajectory/communications design. Regardless of the distance between them, for a stationary point-to-point transmitter-receiver pair communicating across a single link under average power constraints, the total data transfer is unbounded as time tends to infinity. In contrast, we show that if the transmitter/receiver is moving at any constant speed away from each other, then the maximum transmittable data is bounded. Although general closed-form expressions as a function of communication and mobility profile parameters do not yet exist, we provide closed-form expressions for particular cases, such as ideal free space path loss. Under more general scenarios we instead give lower bounds on the total transmittable information across a single link between mobile nodes.
Date Issued
2020-07
Date Acceptance
2019-12-30
Citation
IEEE Communications Letters, 2020, 24 (7), pp.1410-1413
ISSN
1089-7798
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
1410
End Page
1413
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Communications Letters
Volume
24
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8962223
Grant Number
677854
Subjects
Networking & Telecommunications
0805 Distributed Computing
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1005 Communications Technologies
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-01-17