Mobile wireless network system simulation

  • Authors:
  • Joel Short;Rajive Bagrodia;Leonard Kleinrock

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Los Angeles;Univ. of California, Los Angeles;Univ. of California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Networks
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This paper describes an advanced simulation environment which is used to examine, validate, and predict the performance of mobile wireless network systems. This simulation environment overcomes many of the limitations found with analytical models, experimentation, and other commercial network simulators available on the market today. We identify a set of components which make up mobile wireless systems and describe a set of flexible modules which can be used to model the various components and their integration. These models are developed using the Maisie simulation language. By modeling the various components and their integration, this simulation environment is able to accurately predict the performance bottlenecks of a multimedia wireless network system being developed at UCLA, determine the trade-off point between the various bottlenecks, and provide performance measurements and validation of algorithms which are not possible through experimentation and too complex for analysis.