Chakrabarti, ArnabSabharwal, AshutoshAazhang, Behnaam2007-10-312007-10-312004-04-012004-04-01A. Chakrabarti, A. Sabharwal and B. Aazhang, "MultiHop Communication is Order Optimal for Homogeneous Sensor Networks," 2004.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/19770Conference PaperThe main goal of this paper is to show that multi-hop single-user communication achieves the per node transport capacity of O(lnN/N) in homogeneous sensor networks, making it order-optimal. Our contributions in this paper are threefold. First, we construct a route-discovery and scheduling scheme based on spatial TDMA for sensor networks. Second, we show that our schedule achieves a per node transport capacity of O(lnN/N), the same as that achievable by beamforming. Third, we compare multi-hop communication and beamforming based methods in terms of the network power consumption required to attain a fixed throughput. Based on our power calculations, we conclude that if the channel attenuation is above a certain threshold (which we calculate), then multi-hop communication performs better, whereas below the threshold, beamforming is preferable.engsensor networkcommunicationpowerthroughputtransport capacitymulti-hopbeamformingscheduleTDMAConference papersensor networkcommunicationpowerthroughputtransport capacitymulti-hopbeamformingscheduleTDMAhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1145/984622.984649