Combining Analytical and Simulation Approaches for Estimating End-to-End Delay in Multi-hop Wireless Networks

In this work, we present an empirical support of an analytical approach which employs a frequency domain analysis for estimating end-to-end delay in multi-hop networks. The proposed analytical results of the end-to-end delay distribution are validated through simulation and compared with queueing based analysis by defining two concrete scenarios. Our results demonstrate that an analytical prediction schema is insufficient to provide an adequate estimation of the end-to-end delay distribution function, but it requires to be combined with a simulation method for detailed links and nodes latencies distribution.