Analytical Models for Single-Hop and Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz;Suresh Subramaniam

  • Affiliations:
  • The George Washington University;The George Washington University

  • Venue:
  • BROADNETS '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Networks
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The inherent complexity of analysis of a multi-hop ad hoc network together with the fact that the behavior of a node is dependent not only on its neighbors' behavior, but also on the behavior of other unseen nodes makes multi-hop network analysis extremely difficult.However, our approach in this paper to analyze multi-hop networks offers an accurate approximation with moderate complexity.Our approach is based on characterizing the behavior of a node by its state and the state of the channel it sees.This approach is used to carry out an analysis of single-hop and multi-hop ad hoc networks in which different nodes may have different traffic loads.In order to validate the model, it is applied to IEEE 802.11-based networks, and it is shown through extensive simulations that the model is very accurate.