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The Effect of Wireless Channel Models on the Performance of Sensor Networks  

안종석 (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
한상섭 (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학)
김지훈 (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Information Networking / v.31, no.4, 2004 , pp. 375-383 More about this Journal
Abstract
As wireless mobile networks have been widely adopted due to their convenience for deployment, the research for improving their performance has been actively conducted. Since their throughput is restrained by the packet corruption rate not by congestion as in wired networks, however, network simulations for performance evaluation need to select the appropriate wireless channel model representing the behavior of propagation errors for the evaluated channel. The selection of the right model should depend on various factors such as the adopted frequency band, the level of signal power, the existence of obstacles against signal propagation, the sensitivity of protocols to bit errors, and etc. This paper analyzes 10-day bit traces collected from real sensor channels exhibiting the high bit error rate to determine a suitable sensor channel model. For selection, it also evaluates the performance of two error recovery algorithms such as a link layer FEC algorithm and three TCPs (Tahoe, Reno, and Vegas) over several channel models. The comparison analysis shows that CM(Chaotic Map) model predicts 3-time less BER variance and 10-time larger PER(Packet Error Rate) than traces while these differences between the other models and traces are larger than 10-time. The simulation experiments, furthermore, prove that CM model evaluates the performance of these algorithms over sensor channels with the precision at least 10-time more accurate than any other models.
Keywords
Propagation Error Models; Wireless Network Simulation; Wireless Sensor Network; Chaotic Map Model;
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