Ước lượng công suất từ xa cho WLANs: Nghiên cứu và ứng dụng

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Technological University Dublin

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Ẩn danh

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Doctoral Thesis

2014

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55 Point

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DECLARATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Framework of the Thesis

2. CHAPTER 2: TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

2.1. Wireless Local Area Networks

2.2. Wireless Mesh Networks

2.3. Fundamentals of the IEEE 802.1 Hidden Nodes Problem

2.4. Contention-Based Access Using the Distributed Coordination Function

2.5. IEEE MAC Frame

2.6. The Concept of Node Capacity and Capacity Utilization in WLANs

2.6.1. Capacity in Wired Networks

2.6.2. Capacity in Wireless Networks

2.6.3. Node Capacity Utilization in Wireless Networks

2.7. Developing a Node Capacity Utilization Estimator

2.7.1. The Challenges in Developing a Node Capacity Utilization Estimator

2.7.2. The Challenges of Remote Measurement

2.7.3. The Applications of Remote Capacity Utilization Estimator

2.8. The Structure of ns2

2.9. The Advantages and Benefits of ns2

3. CHAPTER 3: LITERATURE REVIEW

3.1. Active Probing Approaches in Capacity Estimation

3.1.1. Active Probing Approaches in Wired Networks

3.1.2. Active Probing Approaches in WLANs

3.2. Analytical and Mathematical Approaches

3.3. Passive Approaches for Capacity Estimation

3.3.1. Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Estimation

3.3.2. Local Estimation with Non-Interfering Nodes

3.3.3. Local Estimation in the Presence of Interfering Nodes

3.3.4. Available Bandwidth on a Pair of Nodes

3.3.5. Capacity Estimation: Measurement Metrics and Evaluation Criteria

3.3.5.1. Performance Evaluation of Capacity Estimation
3.3.5.2. Comparison and Classification of Proposed Literatures

3.5. Capacity Estimation: Potential Wireless Applications Area

3.5.1. AP selection and ANDSF

3.5.2. Resource Aware Routing

3.5.4. Node Saturation Detection

4. CHAPTER 4: THE CAPACITY UTILIZATION ESTIMATOR

4.1. The Node Capacity Utilization Estimation

4.1.1. MAC Bandwidth Components

4.1.2. Access Efficiency Factor and Node Capacity

4.1.3. Node Capacity Utilization

4.2. A Capacity Utilization Estimator

4.2.1. Impact of Network Topology

4.2.2. Terms and Definitions

4.2.3. Calculation and Measurement of the Capacity Utilization Estimator

4.2.3.1. Pre-calculated Data
4.2.3.2. Phase 1: Initialisation and Configuration Phase
4.2.3.3. Phase 2: Observation Phase
4.2.3.4. Phase 3: Parsing and Processing Phase

4.2.4. Load Bandwidth Measurement

4.2.5. Access Bandwidth Measurement

4.2.6. Model and Error Analysis

4.2.7. Improving the Accuracy of the Remote Capacity Utilization Estimator

4.3. An Improved Remote Node Capacity Utilization Estimator

4.3.1. Neighbour Load Improvement

4.3.2. Halving the Failed Retransmission Bandwidth

4.3.3. Capacity Utilization Improvement

4.3.4. Statistical Characterization of the Estimator Error

4.4. Node Saturation Detection

4.4.1. A New Algorithm in Detecting Node Saturation

4.4.2. The Performance of the Saturation Detection Algorithms

5. CHAPTER 5: SIMULATION RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

5.1. Simulation Set Up and Scenarios

5.1.1. Simulation Set Up

5.2. Analysis of the Accuracy of the Capacity Utilization Estimator without the Modifications

5.2.1. Different Number of Neighbour Nodes (N)

5.2.2. Different Number of Observable Neighbours of the Observed Node (M)

5.2.3. Different Traffic Load of the Observed Node

5.2.4. Different Traffic Load of Neighbour Nodes of the Observed Node

5.2.5. Different Traffic Types

5.3. Performance Evaluation of the Capacity Utilization Estimator after the Modifications

5.3.1. The Impact of Factors on the Accuracy of the Estimator after the Modifications

5.4. A Comparison of the Three Methods

5.5. The Capacity Utilization Estimator in Node Saturation Detection

5.6. Comparison of Three Node Saturation Detection Algorithms

6. CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK

6.1. Suggestions for Future Work

6.1.1. Validate, Improve and Extend the Performance of the Capacity Utilization Estimator

6.1.2. Wireless Application Areas for the Capacity Utilization Estimator