Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Introduction to Algorithms
Implementing MAC protocols for cooperative relaying: a compiler-assisted approach
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
Simulating wireless and mobile networks in OMNeT++ the MiXiM vision
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
Real-world environment models for mobile network evaluation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Reactive traffic-aware routing strategy for urban vehicular environments
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
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Wireless network protocols are commonly evaluated through simulations. The achieved results may vary significantly with the modeled propagation environment. Protocols that use carrier sensing for collision avoidance may not operate properly in the presence of obstacles (e.g. buildings) that shield hosts from each other. These failures may not be recognized when using a long-term stochastic model (e.g. log-normal shadowing), leading to inadequate simulation results. Studying a simple carrier-sensing protocol, we find that when shielding effects are properly modeled, they increase collisions dramatically with increasing transmission power as opposed to the stochastic model. Thus, we formally introduce a model that describes shielding effects and which is still simple enough to be efficiently implemented. We discuss how such implementation looks like, using the Mobility Framework and the INET Framework for OMNeT++ as specific examples. We identify connection-specific caches to be crucial for the run-time performance of the model's implementation.