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

Nicola  Baldo; Manuel  Requena-Esteso; José Núñez-Martínez; Marc  Portolès-Comeras; Jaume  Nin-Guerrero; Paolo  Dini; Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

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

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8705,
    author={Nicola  Baldo and Manuel  Requena-Esteso and Jos\^{e} N\^{u}\`{o}ez-Mart\^{\i}nez and Marc  Portol\'{e}s-Comeras and Jaume  Nin-Guerrero and Paolo  Dini and Josep Mangues-Bafalluy},
    title={Validation of the IEEE 802.11 MAC model in the ns3 simulator using the EXTREME testbed},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Validation Simulator Testbed IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8705}
}

Nicola Baldo
Manuel Requena-Esteso
José Núñez-Martínez
Marc Portolès-Comeras
Jaume Nin-Guerrero
Paolo Dini
Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
Year: 2010
Validation of the IEEE 802.11 MAC model in the ns3 simulator using the EXTREME testbed
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8705

Nicola Baldo¹^,*, Manuel Requena-Esteso¹^,*, José Núñez-Martínez¹^,*, Marc Portolès-Comeras¹^,*, Jaume Nin-Guerrero¹^,*, Paolo Dini¹^,*, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy¹^,*

1: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.

*Contact email: nbaldo@cttc.es, mrequena@cttc.es, jnunez@cttc.es, mportoles@cttc.es, jnin@cttc.es, pdini@cttc.es, jmangues@cttc.es

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.

Keywords: Validation Simulator Testbed IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8705