DARPA under Contract F33615-01-C-1905 and N00014-01- 1-0576, DARPAIAFOSR under Contract F4962C-02-1-0325 and AFOSR under contract F49620-02-1-0217. New Results in Network Information Theory: Scaling Laws for Wireless Communication and Optimal Strategies for Information Transport11This material is based upon work partially supported by the USARO under Contract DAAD1S-00-1-0466 and DAAD19-01010-465

2002 IEEE. We present a network information theory for wireless communications. This theory addresses the following issues: (i) How the amount of information that can be carried over a wireless network scales as the number n of nodes in the network increases. (ii) Obtains bounds on the pre-constant in the scaling law, thus obtaining bounds on network capability as a function of n, the number of nodes in the network. (iii) What, strategies for operating the wireless network give optimal performance up to order.

Overview