1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Research Article

Running variance metric for evaluating performance of wireless IP networks in the MobileCty testbed

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.30,
        author={Christer  \AE{}hlund and Robert  Br\aa{}nnstr\o{}m and Arkady  Zaslavsky},
        title={Running variance metric for evaluating performance of wireless IP networks in the MobileCty testbed},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2005},
        month={3},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.30}
    }
    
  • Christer Åhlund
    Robert Brännström
    Arkady Zaslavsky
    Year: 2005
    Running variance metric for evaluating performance of wireless IP networks in the MobileCty testbed
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.30
Christer Åhlund1,*, Robert Brännström1,*, Arkady Zaslavsky2,*
  • 1: Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
  • 2: School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Vic 3145, Melbourne, Australia
*Contact email: christer.ahlund@ltu.se, robert.brannstrom@ltu.se, a.zaslavsky@csse.monash.edu.au

Abstract

This paper proposes and analyzes a Running Variance Metric performance measurement of wireless local area networks and its formal aspects. Our approach evaluates the performance of wireless local area networks in infrastructure mode as well as in ad hoc mode. The Running Variance Metric is used to discover relative traffic loads of available access-points/gateways at the network layer in order to provide connectivity to the wired network. The paper discusses a simulation study. The simulation results demonstrate the usefulness and efficiency of the Running Variance Metric to evaluate the utilization of available access-points/gateways. It is also shown that this metric can be used for hop-analysis in multihop ad hoc wireless networks.