WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Modeling and Simulation
Scale A common Issue How accurate do you need? What are you trying to understand? What are your assumptions?
Scale Examples Experiments to understand connection dynamics in a cell phone network Mobility is important Connection info is important What might be left out Cell hardware? Routing algorithms? Voice only (no data)? MAC protocol transients
Scale Examples Experiments to discover effect of transience in BGP in high- tier internet traffic DES may not even be sufficient! Need fine-granularity Still may not need MAC protocols!
Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless How many nodes? How fast do they move? How complex of a wireless model? Simple SNR, Directed Antenae, co-channel interference… Battery life?
By the way Discrete Event Simulation! A simple concept Agents and Events Very Intuitive Very OO friendly, Hooray! What package to use? Look at scale issues! How much do you like to program?
Further Resources Read! Best way by far to understand the state of the art is to read papers Keep a close eye on the models they use… Lots of work in MAC and wireless channel-space sharing NS3 Abundance of general DES
Questions? Thanks!