Abstract

In this paper, we study the multicast capacity of a large scale random wireless network. We simply consider the extended multihop network, where a number of wireless nodes vi(1 ≤ i ≤ n) are randomly located in a square region with side-length a = √ n, by use of Poisson distribution with density 1. All nodes transmit at constant power P, and the power decays along path, with attenuation exponent α> 2. The data rate of a transmission is determined by the SINR as B log(1 + SINR). There are ns randomly and independently chosen multicast sessions. Each multicast has k ran-n domly chosen terminals. We show that, when k ≤ θ1 (log n) 2α+6, and ns ≥ θ2n 1/2+β, the capacity that each multicast session can n achieve, with high probability, is at least c8 √ , where θ1, θ2, ns k and c8 are some special constants and β> 0 is any positive real number. Our result generalizes the unicast capacity [3] for random networks using percolation theory.

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