Performance evaluation of wireless multihop communications for an indoor environment

Author

Spachos, Petros ; Bui, Francis M. ; Song, Liang ; Lostanlen, Yves ; Hatzinakos, Dimitrios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1140

Lastpage

1144

Abstract

The effect of an arbitrary indoor infrastructure environment on the performance of a wireless multihop network is investigated. To this end, an accurate channel modeling tool based on 3D ray tracing is used first to evaluate the signal strength in different areas of the environment. Then, a discrete event simulator is applied to examine the performance of the network with two classes of routing protocols: traditional vs. opportunistic. It is shown that for an indoor environment, opportunistic routing performs better based on the obtained results, with respect to throughput, delay and delivery ratio.

Keywords

indoor communication; radio networks; ray tracing; routing protocols; wireless channels; 3D ray tracing; channel modeling tool; delay ratio; delivery ratio; indoor environment; opportunistic routing; performance evaluation; routing protocol; throughput ratio; wireless multihop communication; Ad hoc networks; Buildings; Delay; Routing; Solid modeling; Throughput; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1346-0

Electronic_ISBN

pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139676

Filename

6139676