Effects of Detail in Wireless Network Simulation Export

@unpublished{citeulike:5017479, abstract = {Experience with wired networks has provides guidance about what level of detail is appropriate for simulationbased protocol studies. Wireless simulations raise many new questions about approriate levels of detail in simulation models for radio propagation and energy consumption. This paper describes the trade-offs associated with adding detail to simulation models. We evaluate the effects of detail in five case studies of wireless simulations for protocol design. Ultimately the researcher must judge what level of detail is required for a given question, but we suggest two approaches to cope with varying levels of detail. When error is not correlated, networking algorithms that are robust to a range of errors are often stressed in similar ways by random error as by detailed models. We also suggest visualization techniques that can help pinpoint incorrect details and manage detail overload.}, author = {Heidemann, John and Bulusu, Nirupama and Elson, Jeremy and Intanagonwiwat, Chalermek and Lan, Kun-Chan and Xu, Ya and Ye, Wei and Estrin, Deborah and Govindan, Ramesh}, booktitle = {SCS Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference}, citeulike-article-id = {5017479}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann00d.pdf}, institution = {Center for Embedded Network Sensing}, keywords = {2, network, network-simulation, network-simulator, ns, ns-2, ns2, simulation, simulator, v2, wireless, wireless-network}, month = {January}, pages = {1--10}, posted-at = {2009-06-30 02:47:56}, priority = {2}, title = {Effects of Detail in Wireless Network Simulation}, url = {http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann00d.pdf}, year = {2001} }

TY - UNPB ID - citeulike:5017479 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5017479 N2 - Experience with wired networks has provides guidance about what level of detail is appropriate for simulationbased protocol studies. Wireless simulations raise many new questions about approriate levels of detail in simulation models for radio propagation and energy consumption. This paper describes the trade-offs associated with adding detail to simulation models. We evaluate the effects of detail in five case studies of wireless simulations for protocol design. Ultimately the researcher must judge what level of detail is required for a given question, but we suggest two approaches to cope with varying levels of detail. When error is not correlated, networking algorithms that are robust to a range of errors are often stressed in similar ways by random error as by detailed models. We also suggest visualization techniques that can help pinpoint incorrect details and manage detail overload. EP - 10 TI - Effects of Detail in Wireless Network Simulation T2 - SCS Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference SP - 1 KW - 2 KW - network KW - network-simulation KW - network-simulator KW - ns KW - ns-2 KW - ns2 KW - simulation KW - simulator KW - v2 KW - wireless KW - wireless-network AU - Heidemann, John AU - Bulusu, Nirupama AU - Elson, Jeremy AU - Intanagonwiwat, Chalermek AU - Lan, Kun-Chan AU - Xu, Ya AU - Ye, Wei AU - Estrin, Deborah AU - Govindan, Ramesh PY - 2001/01// UR - http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann00d.pdf ER -