Mathematical Problems in Engineering 
Volume 3 (1996), Issue 1, Pages 53-74
doi:10.1155/S1024123X97000483

Performance analysis of multi-hop wireless packet networks

J.-T. Lim1 and S. M. Meerkov2

 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea
2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1109, MI, USA
Received 5 March 1996

Abstract

In this paper, a unified analytical framework for performance analysis of multi-hop wireless packet networks is developed. The effect of coupling between the hops on the degradation of the delay-throughput characteristics and the probability of blocking is investigated. The issue of hop decoupling is addressed.