Joint routing, scheduling and power control for multihop MIMO networks

We consider the problem of joint routing, scheduling and power control in a multihop wireless network when the nodes have multiple antennas. We present an iterative scheme to compute achievable rates in the interference environment of the network using SINR model. The solution methods have a high computational complexity. Thus we also provide an efficient low complexity sub-optimal solution. We show that the multiple antennas provide linear gain in system throughput.

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