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Studying Real-time Traffic in Multi-hop Networks Using the EMANE Emulator: Capabilities and Limitations

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245554,
    author={Kaustubh Jain and  Ayan  Roy-Chowdhury and Kiran Somasundaram and Baobing Wang and John Baras},
    title={Studying Real-time Traffic in Multi-hop Networks Using the EMANE Emulator: Capabilities and Limitations},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={Software Emulation Performance Evaluation},
    doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245554}
}
  • Kaustubh Jain
    Ayan Roy-Chowdhury
    Kiran Somasundaram
    Baobing Wang
    John Baras
    Year: 2012
    Studying Real-time Traffic in Multi-hop Networks Using the EMANE Emulator: Capabilities and Limitations
    SIMUTOOLS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245554
Kaustubh Jain1,*, Ayan Roy-Chowdhury1, Kiran Somasundaram1, Baobing Wang1, John Baras1
  • 1: Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland College Park, USA
*Contact email: ksjain@umd.edu

Abstract

In this paper, we provide an open-source software emulator setup for MANETs and study its fidelity in providing reliable performance estimates for real-time traffic. We emulate the IEEE 802.11 MAC/PHY (DCF) using the EMANE software emulator deployed on a cluster and run experiments for different multi-hop wireless scenarios. As an instance, we study the performance of real-time streaming media over a mesh network supported by OLSR. We also use the setup to analyze the impact of the wireless network on the self-similarity of the traffic.

Keywords
Software Emulation Performance Evaluation
Published
2012-04-13
Publisher
ICST
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245554
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