Outage and density of transport of four-way handshaking with imperfect feedback in a mobile multi-hop Ad Hoc network

In this paper, we present a new mathematical framework based on point process theory for a type of four-way handshake-based medium access control schemes which have so far only been studied by simulation. The theoretical model we present takes into account timevarying channel impairments, the interference inherent to large networks, different decoding requirements for each packet and the influence of the routing protocol. Moreover, in contrast with the majority of the literature, the influence of imperfect feedback is also considered in the analysis. Throughout the paper, we derive in closed forms the average link outage probability as well as the Average Spatial Density of Transport (ASDT) in a mobile multi-hop ad hoc network. All results are confirmed by comparison to simulated data and lead to two general conclusions. In the presence of fading uncorrelated between traffic and control handshakes, we observe the following. 1) Optimal contention is achieved by designing control packets that are decodable even in the presence of strong interference. 2) The impact of imperfect feedback on performance in an interference-limited mobile ad hoc network is not negligible.