Performance analysis in multi-hop radio networks with balanced fair resource sharing

Balanced fairness is a new resource sharing concept recently introduced by Bonald and Proutiere. We extend the use of this notion to wireless multi-hop networks, e.g. ad hoc networks, where the link capacities at the flow level are not fixed but depend on lower layer issues such as scheduling and interference. Utilizing this extension we present the theoretical framework for flow level performance analysis of elastic traffic in the setting, assuming that the wireless bandwidth resources are subject to linear constraints. We discuss how different physical and access layer configurations can be described by the linear constraint model and devise an efficient computational scheme for solving the system. The concepts and the computational scheme are illustrated by a number of examples.