Performance Analysis for Multihop Full-Duplex IoT Networks Subject to Poisson Distributed Interferers

• Published in: IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 3467 - 3479
• Main Authors: Chen, Gaojie, Coon, Justin P., Mondal, Avishek, Allen, Ben, Chambers, Jonathon A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.04.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Binary phase shift keying; Computer simulation; Decoding; Error reduction; Full-duplex (FD); Interference; Internet of Things; Markov chains; multihop networks; Networks; performance analysis; Power system reliability; Probability; Relaying; Relays; Spread spectrum communication; stochastic geometry
• ISSN: 2327-4662; 2327-4662
• DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2885756

Multihop relaying is a fundamental technology that will enable connectivity in large-scale networks such as those encounted in Internet of Things applications. However, the end-to-end transmission rate decreases dramatically as the number of hops increases when half-duplex (HD) relaying is employed. In this paper, we investigate the outage probability and symbol-error rate for both HD and full-duplex (FD) transmission schemes in multihop networks subject to interference from randomly distributed third-party devices. We model the locations of the interfering devices as a Poisson point process. We derive a closed-form expression for the outage probability and approximations for the symbol-error rate for HD and FD transmissions employing BPSK and QPSK. The symbol-error rate results are obtained by using a Markov chain model for the multihop decode-and-forward links. This model accurately accounts for the nonlinear dynamical nature of the network, whereby erroneous symbol decoding can be "corrected" by a second erroneous decoding operation later in the network. We verify the analytical results through simulations and show the HD and FD schemes can be utilized to reduce the error-rate and outage probability of the system according to different residual self-interference levels and interferer densities. The results provide clear guidelines for implementing HD and FD in multihop networks.