IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Soft and safe admission control in cellular networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A framework for the simulation experimentation process
Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation
A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Comparison of connection admission-control schemes in the presence of hand-offs in cellular networks
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Channel carrying: a novel handoff scheme for mobile cellular networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Scenario-based performance analysis of routing protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A reduced-power channel reuse scheme for wireless packet cellular networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A novel distributed call admission control for wireless mobile multimedia networks
WOWMOM '00 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia
Mobility modeling of rush hour traffic for location area design in cellular networks
WOWMOM '00 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Smooth is better than sharp: a random mobility model for simulation of wireless networks
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Performance evaluation of mobile wireless networks: a new perspective
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
A simulation study of load balancing algorithms in cellular packet networks
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Routing with load balancing in wireless Ad hoc networks
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Merit: A unified framework for routing protocol assessment in mobile AD Hoc networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A comparison of TCP performance over three routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Distributed admission control for power-controlled cellular wireless systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An efficient polling MAC for wireless LANs
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Priority scheduling in wireless ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
An integrated environment for testing mobile ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
MSWiM '02 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
EMWIN:: emulating a mobile wireless network using a wired network
WOWMOM '02 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia
Enabling Large-Scale Simulation: Selective Abstraction Approach to the Study of Multicast Protocol
MASCOTS '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Quality of service guarantees in mobile computing
Computer Communications
The capacity of wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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The goal of this paper is to develop a systematic approach to conducting simulations in wireless cellular networks. Performance analysis in such networks is a non-trivial task for the following reasons. First, there are a lot of parameters whose combined effect needs to be understood. Second, there are no benchmarks or widely accepted realistic values. As a result, different studies use different scenarios, and this makes the results of these studies incomparable. How can we make network scenarios and results easier to interpret and compare? We start with the observation that absolute parameter values are meaningless. Instead, we propose the use of relative parameters. These parameters combine multiple parameters into fewer parameters; e.g., user speed and diameter of cell are combined into the cell latency parameter. Thus, we reduce the total parameter space, but more importantly, we capture the combined effect of parameters that affect the performance. We show how using relative units of time and space and relative parameters such as cell latency and average number of cells visited can provide better insight than absolute parameters such as session duration or absolute units such as seconds, miles, etc. In addition, we propose the use of steady state utilization, a novel metric that captures the inherent capacity of a mobile network. We show that steady state utilization can become the reference point with which we can conduct meaningful simulations and interpret results more effectively. Finally, we describe a case study to illustrate our methodology. We evaluate the effect of bandwidth reservations on network performance. Our results show how reservations can actually hurt network performance.