Around the Poisson-Voronoi
Point processes play a crucial role in modeling wireless networks with base stations and users. Explore the concepts of Poisson-Voronoi tessellations, homogenous Poisson point processes, and planar random tessellations in the context of network theory. Understand how point processes define the distribution and connectivity of wireless networks based on proximity and spatial arrangement.
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Around the Poisson-Voronoi tessellation Pierre Popineau Network theory reading group 09/06/2021
Motivation wireless networks Wireless network with base stations placed at given locations Each user connects to the closest base station Assume that BS are distributed according a point process and users are inside the associated Voronoi diagram 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 2
Point process Let ( , ,?) be a probability space and (?, ) a measurable space, ? being locally compact and separated. A point process on ? is a mapping : such that: - ( ,?) is a locally finite measure on ?, ? - ?, is an integer-valued random variable, ? defined as follows is a random variable on ( ) the set of locally finite measures on 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 3
Point process Alternative representation: ? ? = ??? ?=1 Where ? is an integer-value RV and ?? ? are drawn randomly If the ?? are almost-surely different (i.e. ?,? 1 = 1 ? ?), then is simple. If is translation-invariant, it is stationary 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 4
Poisson point process Take ? = ?, ? 1, with the associated Borel ?-algebra If there exists ?: ? 0, and ? = ?? ? ?? such that: (?)? ?! - For any given ?1, ,?? such that ? ? ?? ??= , the events ?? = ?? are independent ? (?) - ? , ? = ? = Then, is a Poisson point process with intensity measure 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 5
Poisson point process If ? ? = ?? for ? > 0, then is an homogenous Poisson point process with parameter ?. The homogenous Poisson point process is isotropic and translation invariant. To simulate a homogenous PPP: - Fix a window ? and draw ? ? ? ? - Draw independently, uniformly at random ? points in ? 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 6
Planar random tessellation Take ? = 2. A tessellation of 2 is a set = ?? such that: - ? ???= 2 - ? ? ?? ??= ?: set of tessellations of 2 A tessellation of the plane can be seen as the surface of a infinite-sized polyhedron 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 7
Voronoi diagram Let ? ? and x ?. The Voronoi cell of ? in ? is: ? ? = {? ? | ? ? ? ? , ? ?\{?}} The Voronoi tessellation associated with ? is ? ? = {? ? ,? ?} Let be a point process. ? is a random planar tessellation 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 8
Typical cell vs zero-cell Two objects of interest in a tessellation: - The typical cell: any cell chosen uniformly at random - The zero-cell: the cell containing the origin Palm distribution: probability distribution conditioned on an event happening at the origin 1 0? = ? ? = 1?? ? ?? ???? ? ? ? 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 9
Typical cell vs 0-cell Two objects of interest: - The typical cell ?: any randomly chosen item in the PV tessellation - The 0-cell ?0: the PV cell containing the origin Define: - ?0 the PP of vertices of with intensity ?0 - ?1 the PP of edge midpoints of with intensity ?1 - ?2 the PP of centroids of with intensity ?2 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 10
Typical cell vs 0-cell Results of note : - The 0-cell has on average 6 edges - ?0= 2?2, ?1= 3?2 and ?0 ?1+ ?2= 0 (similar to Euler s formula) - -almost surely, no 4 points lie in a circle Typical cell: is a simple stationary point process with intensity ? > 0 =1 ? ? ? What about ?0 ? 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 11
Typical cell vs 0-cell ??( ) and ? = ?0 ?1 ?2( ) are stationary PP The Palm distribution 0 of ? is equal to: ?? 0? = ??? ? (??) ? ? ? ? 0,1 Let ? be measurable function on ? and ?2= ? ?:? ?2(?) . We define: =?? ?2? ? ? 0(??) ?2 ?2 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 12
Typical cell vs 0-cell Then: ?2?2 ? ? ?? = ?? 2??2? ??0? ? ? ? + ? ?? 0?? ?0 ? Using a mass transportation argument, for any measurable function ?: ?? 2? ?,? ?? 0?? = ? ?,? ? (??) ? ? ? ? ? 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 13
Typical cell vs 0-cell With ? ?,? = ??2? ??0? ? ?(? + ?): ?2?2 ? ? ?? = ??2? ? ??0? ? ? ? ? ?? ?0 ? ? ? ? ??2? ? ??0 ? ? ? = 1 iff ? belongs in the 0-cell of ? ? There is only one such ? in each ?, thus: ?2?2 ? ? ?? = ?[? ] ?0 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 14
Typical cell vs 0-cell With ? 1: 1 = ?2?2 ?? = ?2? |?| ?0 With ? 1/|?0|: 1 ?0 1 ? = ?2= ? |?| Using Jensen s inequality: ? |?| ?[ ?0] Feller s paradox 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 15
Typical cell vs 0-cell Numerically: ? ?0 1.28?[ ? ] 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 16
Size distribution of PV cells We have no analytical results around the size distribution of cells. Reasonable results achieved with a generalized Gamma distribution: ? ? ?? ? ?? 1exp ??? ? ? = ? Alternatively: ?? ? ?? 1exp ?? ? ? = 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 17
Size distribution of PV cells We have no analytical results around the size distribution of cells Heuristic (Ferenc, N da, 2007) for the distribution of ?|?| in dimension ? 1: 3? 1 2 exp 3? + 1 ??? = ?? ? 2 3?+1 2 3?+1 2 Where ? = is the normalisation constant 3?+1 2 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 18
Size distribution of PV cells We have no analytical results around the size distribution of cells Heuristic for the distribution of ?|?| in dimension 2: 5 2exp 7 ??? = ?? 2? Where ? =343 7 2? is the normalisation constant 15 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 19
Results around the 0-cell Let ? be any measurable non-negative function (Mecke, 2002): 1 ? ? ?0 = ?[ ? ]? ? ? ? = ?? ? ? ? With ? ? = ??: ?= ??[ ??+1] ? ?0 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 20
Results around the 0-cell With ? = 1: =?[ ?2] ?[ ? ]= ? ? +Var ? ? ? ? ?0 Link between the CDF/PDF: ? 1 ?0? = ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? 0 3? 1 2 1 ? ? exp 3? + 1 ? ? ?0? = ?? ? ??? ? ? 2 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 21
Results around the 0-cell Size of the 0-cell with ? = 2: ??0? ?? =9 1 ? 1.28?[ ? ] = ? ?0 7 0 This result is only a heuristic, no analytical result exists 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 22
Practical example wireless network Assume base stations are distributed according a PPP of intensity ? > 0 and mobile user, to a PPP of intensity ? > ?. Open access: users connect to the closest BS in the network Base stations form a PV tessellation of 2 with parameter ? Assume a TDMA setup: users connect to the same antenna and radio resources are equally shared among all users 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 23
Practical example wireless network Assume that all users receive the same Shannon rate from their association antenna . Using the stationarity of the PPP resume the analysis to the typical MU located at the origin. ? = 1 + ?0 is the RV denoting the numer of MU sharing the 0- cell The average Shannon rate received by the typical MU is equal to: ? 1 ? 0= ? = ? 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 24
Practical example wireless network Using the previous results: ? 1 1 ? ?0 ?! ? = ? exp( ? ?0) 1 + ?0 ? + 1 ?=1 1 1 ? ? ?0 = ? ? ?0 = ? ??[1 ? ? ?? ?] 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 25
Practical example wireless network Using the PDF for ?|?|, we get: 7 2 1 ? =? 1 1 +2 ? ? ? ? 7 This results and heuristics allow us to get rapidly closed analytical forms for moment measure related to PV tessellations. 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 26
Practical example wireless network With ? = ? (1 ? ? ) 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 27
References Baccelli, Blaszczyszyn, Karray, Random Measures, Point Processes, and Stochastic Geometry, Inria, 2020 Chiu, Stoyan, Mecke, Kendall, Mecke, Stochastic Geometry and its Applications, Wiley, 2013 Mecke, On the relationship between the 0-cell and the typical cell of a stationary random tessellation, 1998 Ferenc, N da, On the size distribution of Poisson Voronoi cells, 2007 Mankar, Parida, Dhillon, Haenggi, Distance from the Nucleus to a Uniformly Random Point in the 0-cell and the Typical Cell of the Poisson- Voronoi Tessellation, 2019 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 28
Results around the 0-cell No analytical result for the distribution of ?0, higher order moment measures exist (Mankar et al., 2019) : 2? 2= 4? ? ?0 exp ?? ?1?2,? ?1?2??1??2?? 0 0 0 Where ? ?1,?2,? =? ?1 ?2 2+ ?2 2 ?1 2 2 sin2? ?? ?2 sin2? ?? ?1 2 0 0 2sin2?1 = ?2 2sin2?2 And ?1+ ?2= ? ?, ?1 13/03/2025 Poisson-Voronoi tessellations 29