Capacity Scaling of Wireless Networks with Inhomogeneous Node Density: Upper Bounds

We analyze the capacity scaling laws of wireless ad hoc networks comprising significant inhomogeneities in the node spatial distribution over the network area. In particular, we consider nodes placed according to a shot-noise Cox process, which allows to model the clustering behavior usually recognized in large-scale systems. For this class of networks, we introduce novel techniques to compute upper bounds to the available per-flow throughput as the number of nodes tends to infinity, which are tight in the case of interference limited systems.