Communication Research Group, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Salami, O., Communication Research Group, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa; Bagula, A., Communication Research Group, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa; Chan, H.A., Communication Research Group, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
The consequence of simultaneous transmissions by nodes in inter-working multi-hop wireless networks is inter-node interference. Inter-node interference is a metric that is important for the performance evaluation of inter-working wireless networks. Several interference models exist in literature, however, these models are for specific wireless networks and MAC protocols. Due to the heterogeneity of link-level technologies in interworking multi-hop wireless networks, it is desirable to have generic models for the evaluation of interference on links in such networks. A generic model can provide information about the interference level on a link irrespective of the MAC protocol in use. This paper presents a generic interference model. The model evaluates the probability of interference and uses the negative second moment of the distance between a receiver-node and interfering-nodes to evaluate the interference power on a link in an inter-working multi-hop wireless network. Numerical results of the performance of the model are presented.
Generic models; Inter-node interferences; Inter-working; Interference level; Interference models; Interference power; MAC protocol; Multihop; Multihop wireless network; Numerical results; Performance evaluation; Second moments; Simultaneous transmission; Medium access control; Wave interference; Wireless networks
