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Simulating Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks in City Scenarios

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Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006)

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Simulation tools are frequently used for performance evaluations of mobile ad-hoc networks. Currently the tools poorly support urban scenarios, since they do not take a spatial environment into account. In this paper, we describe a platform for the modeling of city scenarios. We extend ns-2 with corresponding mobility and wireless transmission models. By using its emulation facility, we integrate unmodified applications and real implementations of network protocols. We demonstrate the usefulness of the platform for performance evaluations by modeling a mobile application in a simulated environment of Stuttgart downtown. We show that it helps identifying application problems before deployment.

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  1. Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS), Universität Stuttgart, Universitätsstr. 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Illya Stepanov & Kurt Rothermel

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Torsten Braun

  2. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, University of Tübingen, Germany

    Georg Carle

  3. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 250 N. University Street, IN 47907-2066, West Lafayette, USA

    Sonia Fahmy

  4. Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 10, 33720, Tampere, Finland

    Yevgeni Koucheryavy

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Stepanov, I., Rothermel, K. (2006). Simulating Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks in City Scenarios. In: Braun, T., Carle, G., Fahmy, S., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11750390_1

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