Simulator for Performance Evaluation of Cross-Layer Design in Adaptive Wireless Networks

• David F. C. Moura IME
• Ronaldo M. Salles IME
• Juraci F. Galdino IME

Abstract

This work presents a simulation tool for cross-layer design over adaptive wireless networks. Such tool gathers finite-length queuing characterization, traffic arrival models for different applications and multipath fading effects over wireless channels. Besides, this work shows a case study using the developed tool to analyze four different traffic sources. Such analysis takes into account metrics such as dropping probability, average delay on queue, spectral efficiency and physical-layer packet error rate.

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