In a large multi-hop wireless network, nodes are preferable to make distributed link-scheduling decisions with information exchange only among a small number of neighbors. However, for a slowly-decaying channel and densely-populated interfering nodes, a small size neighborhood often results in nontrivial link outages and is thus insufficient for making optimal scheduling decisions. A question a...

Two real-valued or vector-valued random variables X, Y are independent for probability measure P (written: X ⊥ Y [P ]) if for all sets A and B, P[X ∈ A, Y ∈ B] = P[X ∈ A] · P[Y ∈ B]. For jointly discrete or jointly continuous random variables this is equivalent to factoring of the joint probability mass function or probability density function, respectively. The variables X and Y are conditiona...