Haenggi Selected for Spotlight in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Characterizing the performance of ad hoc networks is one of the most intricate open challenges; conventional ideas based on information-theoretic techniques and inequalities have not yet been able to successfully tackle this problem in its generality. Motivated thus, we promote the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP), a particle flow model in statistical mechanics, as a useful analytical tool to study ad hoc networks with random access. Employing the TASEP framework, we first investigate the average end-to-end delay and throughput performance of a linear multihop flow of packets. 

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Martin Haenggi is a Notre Dame Professor of Electrical Engineering and Concurrent Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. Sunil Srinivasa (Notre Dame PhD, 2011) is Senior Systems Design Engineer, LSI Corporation.