Solutions to hidden terminal problems in wireless networks
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Sniffing Out the Correct Physical Layer Capture Model in 802.11b
ICNP '04 Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
MANET simulation studies: the incredibles
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review - Special Issue on Medium Access and Call Admission Control Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks.: The Digital Library version of this issue has a corrected special issue title compared to the one in the print version of the issue.
Jigsaw: solving the puzzle of enterprise 802.11 analysis
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Analyzing the MAC-level behavior of wireless networks in the wild
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Exploiting partially overlapping channels in wireless networks: turning a peril into an advantage
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Using emulation to understand and improve wireless networks and applications
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Exploiting the capture effect for collision detection and recovery
EmNets '05 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors
Understanding link-level 802.11 behavior: replacing convention with measurement
WICON '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Wireless internet
Validation of Radio Channel Models Using an Anechoic Chamber
PADS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
WiFi-Nano: reclaiming WiFi efficiency through 800 ns slots
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Improving fairness in IEEE 802.11 networks using MAC layer opportunistic retransmission
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Since wireless signals propagate through the ether, they are significantly affected by attenuation, fading, multipath, and interference. As a result, it is difficult to measure and understand fundamental wireless network behavior. This creates a challenge for both network researchers, who often rely on simulators to evaluate their work, and network managers, who need to deploy and optimize operational networks. Given the complexity of wireless networks, both communities often rely on simplifying rules, which frequently have not been validated using today's wireless radios. In this paper, we undertake a detailed characterization of 802.11 link-level behavior using commercial 802.11 cards. Our study uses a wireless testbed that provides signal propagation emulation, giving us complete control over the signal environment. In addition, we use our measurements to analyze the performance of an operational wireless network. Our work contributes to a more accurate understanding of link-level behavior and enables the development of more accurate wireless network simulators.