Performance analysis of wireless Ad Hoc networks

Orientador: Paulo CardieriDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de ComputaçãoResumo: As características intrínsecas de uma rede ad hoc sem fio de múltiplos saltos, tais como a ausência de uma entidade controladora central e de infra-estrutura, a possibilidade de comunicação direta entre as estações, além da degradação imposta pelo canal sem fio, impõem desafios à análise do desempenho de tais redes. Tais desafios são ainda maiores quando se deseja empregar uma formulação analítica. Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento de um modelo analítico para o desempenho de uma rede ad hoc sem fio, estendendo os modelos encontrados na literatura, com a inclusão de parâmetros da camada física. Com base neste modelo, é apresentada a análise de uma rede, avaliando como o atraso e a vazão são afetados por diversos parâmetros da rede. A análise mostra que dependendo do controle da interferência e da robustez do sistema de transmissão, a capacidade da rede pode ser limitada pela interferência ou pelo atraso. Foi mostrada também a possibilidade da rede operar com um sistema de modulação adaptativo, através do qual a robustez da modulação é alterada para controlar a perda de pacotes e garantir a máxima vazão de dados, mas às custas do aumento no atrasoAbstract: The intrinsic characteristics of wireless multi-hop ad-hoc networks, such as the absence of a centralized control entity and infrastructure, the possibility of direct communication between stations and the degradation resultant from the wireless channel, impose challenges to the performance analysis of such networks. These challenges are even grater when analysis is done through analytical formulations. This work presents the development of an analytical model for the performance of wireless ad-hoc networks, which extends models found in the literature by including parameters of the physical channel. Having this model as a basis, a practical network analysis is presented, measuring how delay and throughput are affected by various network parameters. The analysis shows that, depending on the interference control and the robustness of the transmission system, the network capacity can be limited by interference or by delay. The possibility of the network operating with an adaptive modulation system is also shown. In this case, the robustness of the modulation is changed to control the packet loss and guarantee the maximum throughput, having as a cost a increase in delayMestradoTelecomunicações e TelemáticaMestre em Engenharia Elétric

Performance analysis of wireless ad hoc networks

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Performance modeling of a bottleneck node in an IEEE 802.11 ad-hoc network

This paper presents a performance analysis of wireless ad-hoc networks, with IEEE 802.11 as the underlying Wireless LAN technology. WLAN has, due to the fair radio resource sharing at the MAC-layer, the tendency to share the capacity equally amongst the active nodes, irrespective of their loads. An inherent drawback of this sharing policy is that a node that serves as a relay-node for multiple flows is likely to become a bottleneck. This paper proposes to model such a bottleneck by a fluid-flow model. Importantly, this is a model at the flow-level: flows arrive at the bottleneck node, and are served according to the sharing policy mentioned above. Assuming Poisson initiations of new flow transfers, we obtain insightful, robust, and explicit expressions for characteristics related to the overall flow transfer time, the buffer occupancy, and the packet delay at the bottleneck node. The analysis is enabled by a translation of the buffer dynamics at the bottleneck node in terms of an M/G/1 queueing model. We conclude the paper by an assessment of the impact of alternative sharing policies (which can be obtained by the IEEE 802.11E version), in order to improve the performance of the bottleneck

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The research describes the performance of the three routing protocols (AODV,DSR,TORA)in different network situations, specially varying the size of the networks. AODV shows a considerable better performance over the others for any number of nodes. TORA and DSR show moderate performance for minimum number of nodes, where in the case of large networks, DSR shows some performance rather than TORA. OPNET Modeler 10.5 is used to model the network and to simulate the protocols. The thesis will show a future performance improvement for more routing protocols using OPNET Modelers or other Network Simulators

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