Abstract
In the interference-limited communication scenarios, the interference impairs the data transmission and further degrades the delay performance. In this letter, the stochastic delay guarantee for a wireless dual-hop network with an interference-limited relay is investigated. Considering the randomness of wireless fading in both data links and interference links, the stochastic service process provided by the network is characterized in terms of the moment generation function (MGF). Due to the stochastic service process, the delay should be a random variable (RV). The delay-outage probability is defined as the probability that the actual transmission delay exceeds a threshold value. To evaluate the stochastic delay guarantee, we derive an upper bound on the minimum acceptable delay threshold and a lower bound on the maximum supportable transmitted data size with the constraint of the delay-outage probability, respectively. Simulation results show that the bounds obtained by the theoretical analysis are reasonably tight and well reflect the effect of the interference on the stochastic delay guarantee.