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Recently, the application of the peer to peer networking paradigm (typical for an ad hoc network) has been proposed for wireless local area networks (WLANs), instead of the traditional cellular networking paradigm. In this paper the performance of a WLAN employing the peer to peer networking paradigm is studied via simulations; the results indicate that the direct application of the peer to peer networking paradigm in a WLAN leads to a substantially decreased throughput for the traffic directed to the Access Point (AP). The study also reveals that the cumulative receiving throughput of nodes located at the periphery of relatively small circular areas around the AP is substantially higher. Thus, the capacity of the multihop cellular network may be enhanced by employing the peer to peer paradigm only outside a circular area around the AP and the cellular paradigm inside this circular area. Examples are provided of environments where the aforementioned idea of distributing the traditional AP functionality to a set of nodes at the periphery of a circular area around the AP can be effectively applied.
This work has been supported in part by the IST Programme under contract IST-2001-32686 (BROADWAY).
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Panagakis, A., Balafoutis, E., Stavrakakis, I. (2003). Study of the Capacity of Multihop Cellular Networks. In: Karlsson, G., Smirnov, M.I. (eds) Quality for All. QofIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2811. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45188-4_19
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