A wireless wide-area network, capable of catering to low bit-rate applications is developed. The issues involved, both hardware and software, in the design of such a network are discussed. The network was operated under different conditions of error and the performance analyzed. Computer simulation is employed to study the effect of traffic on the delay offered by the network.

Design and Performance Evaluation of a Low Bit-Rate Packet Radio Network

Undergraduate and graduate classes in computer networks and wireless communications; undergraduate classes in discrete mathematics, data structures, operating systems and programming languages. Also give lectures to both undergraduate-and graduate-level network classes and mentor undergraduate and graduate students for class projects.

Data networks

The design of packet radio networks involves a large number of issues which interact in a very complex fashion. Many of these pertain to the RF channel and its use, others pertain to the operational protocols. Clearly, no single model can be formulated which incorporates all the necessary parameters and leads to the optimum solution. The one essential element which complicates matters is that, contrary to point-to-point networks in which each channel is utilized by a single pair of nodes, the radio channel in packet radio networks is a multiaccess broadcast resource: i) in a given locality determined by radio connectivity, the channel is shared by many contending users, hence the need for channel access protocols; ii) radio is a broadcast medium and thus the action taken by a node has an effect on the actions taken by neighboring nodes and their outcome. Despite the complexity of the problem, there has been significant progress worth reporting on. The work accomplished so far has been either the analysis of specific examples of networks or an attempt to create models that would be useful in the design of general networks. The purpose of this paper is to survey the various modeling techniques that have been used for the performance analysis of packet radio networks, and to discuss the assumptions underlying these models, their scope of applicability, and some of the results obtained.

Design and Performance Evaluation of a Low Bit-Rate Packet Radio Network

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