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Validation of the IEEE 802.11 MAC model in the ns3 simulator using the EXTREME testbed

Authors:

Manuel Requena-Esteso,

José Núñez-Martínez,

Marc Portolès-Comeras,

Jaume Nin-Guerrero,

Josep Mangues-BafalluyAuthors Info & Claims

SIMUTools '10: Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Article No.: 64, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8705

Published: 15 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

We validate the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer model in ns3 by means of measurements on the EXTREME testbed. We consider different scenarios: communications within a single pair of nodes, multi-user communications using either VoIP or saturated traffic, and communications in the presence of hidden nodes. For each scenario we describe in detail our testbed and simulation setup, and compare the results provided by the ns3 simulator with the performance measured on the testbed.

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SIMUTools '10: Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

March 2010

598 pages

ISBN:9789639799875

General Chairs:
L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
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Giovanni Stea
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Jason Liu
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
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Adelinde Uhrmacher
Institute of Computer Science, Rostock, Germany
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UPM, Spain

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