An Analytical Framework for The Charaterization of Link Dynamics in MANETs Invited Paper

Author

Wu, Xiaojie ; Sadjadpour, H.R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., California Univ., Santa Cruz, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

We present an analytical framework and statistical models to accurately characterize the lifetime of a wireless link in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). We show that the lifetime of a link can be computed through a two-state Markov model and that the analytical solution follows closely the results obtained through discrete event simulations. The proposed framework has widespread application in the modeling of medium access control protocols, routing protocols, clustering, and the optimization of MANETs

Keywords

Markov processes; ad hoc networks; discrete event simulation; mobile radio; radio links; MANET; clustering; discrete event simulation; lifetime characterization; medium access control protocols; mobile ad hoc network; optimization; routing protocols; statistical model; two-state Markov model; wireless link dynamics; Access protocols; Algorithm design and analysis; Analytical models; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Discrete event simulation; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network topology; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302172

Filename

4086798