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| Weber,Steven | Drexel University | ||
| Willman,Bryan | Drexel University | ||
| Wildman,Jeffrey | Drexel University | ||
| Kirkpatrick,Michael | Drexel University | ||
| The running time for high fidelity simulation of large-scale mobile ad hoc networks can be prohibitively high. The execution time of physical effects calculations for a single transmission alone can grow unmanageable to account for all potential receivers. Discrete event simulators can also suffer from excessive generation and processing of events, both due to network size and model complexity. In this paper, we present three levels of abstracting the IEEE 802.11 RTS/CTS channel access mechanism. In the process of assessing their ability to mitigate runtime-cost while retaining comparable results to that of a commercially available simulator, OPNET, we found that the abstractions were better suited to collecting one metric over another. | |||
| Jeffrey Wildman is excited to attend MILCOM 2006 to present his first peer reviewed paper. He is a 4th-year electrical engineering student attending Drexel University under a full-tuition scholarship. He is co-advised by Dr. Moshe Kam and Dr. Steven Weber, and he hopes to earn a dual degree from a 5-year Bachelor and Master’s degree program. Since the end of his freshman year, he has been employed as an undergraduate research assistant for Drexel's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, where he has studied wireless ad hoc networks and implemented simulators to capture their behavior. His current research interests, inspired by this work, include efficient simulation of wireless networks. | |||