Patent ID: 7570593

Claim:
A method for interference-resilient joint MAC, routing, and power scheme, comprising the acts of: providing an interference-resilient wireless ad-hoc communication network with K transmitter-receiver nodes, with each node having a unique index identification 1 to K, and comprising at least one antenna that communicates through wireless medium; providing a cross-layer framework that includes a joint routing, scheduling, and power control of respective network layer, data link layer, and physical layer of the communication network; optimizing Medium Access Control sub-layer (MAC) throughput of the data link layer as follows: maxη mac NH,SL,P t ′ where K is an integer; η mac is the MAC throughput; NH constitutes a routing decision; SL constitutes a scheduling decision; and P t constitutes a power control decision; wherein max ⁢ ⁢ η mac NH , SL , P t is determined by constructing interference coupled transmitter sets (ICTs) to explicitly account for interference among transmitters that are within a number of hops distant from a node; resolving intra-set interference within ICT sets; and resolving inter-set interference among different ICT sets.