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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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Distributed Power Control <strong>and</strong> Rate <strong>Ad</strong>aptation 249impact of OH introduced by the proposed MAC protocol appears to benegligible.6.5.6 NS-2 ImplementationThe NS-2 simulator was used for evaluating the proposed DPC scheme.The modifications made to incorporate the proposed DPC algorithm <strong>and</strong>protocol development, mainly focus on two layers of 802.11: Physical layer— modified to collect necessary data, for example interference; <strong>and</strong>Medium Access Control (MAC) layer — modified to implement the DPCalgorithm <strong>and</strong> protocol. Furthermore, floating-point variables are used forcommunicating the power values.The st<strong>and</strong>ard 802.11 <strong>and</strong> the proposed MAC protocols are evaluatedunder similar channel conditions, identical node placements, nodemovement <strong>and</strong> data flows (type, rate, start time, source, destination,etc.), <strong>and</strong> SIR thresholds, with a deterministic propagation model. Thepath loss effect is calculated as in Propagation/Shadowing object from NS-2simulator. <strong>Ad</strong>ditionally, shadowing <strong>and</strong> Rayleigh fading effects havebeen implemented. The calculations use the model from Equation 6.3<strong>and</strong> store effects in sample files. This ensures that the channel uncertaintiesfor the simulations are the same for all protocols. Figure 6.5illustrates an example of such attenuation. The simulations wererepeated for a number of different, r<strong>and</strong>omly generated scenarios, <strong>and</strong>the results were averaged.−60Channel attenuation (120m)Path loss, shadowing <strong>and</strong> Rayleigh faddingPower attenuation [db]−65−70−75−80−850 20 40 60 80 100Time (s)FIGURE 6.5Power attenuation.

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