Analytical Modeling of Wireless Communication Systems
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Wireless networks represent an inexpensive and convenient way to connect to the Internet. However, despite their applications across several technologies, one challenge still remains: to understand the behavior of wireless sensor networks and assess their performance in large-scale scenarios.
When a large number of network nodes need to interact, developing suitable analytical models is essential to ensure the appropriate coverage and throughput of these networks and to enhance user mobility. This is intrinsically difficult due to the size and number of different network nodes and users.
This book highlights some examples which show how this problem can be overcome with the use of different techniques. An intensive parameter analysis shows the reader how to the exploit analytical models for an effective development and management of different types of wireless networks.
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Analytical Modeling of Wireless Communication Systems - Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini
Part 1
Sensor Networks
1
Fluid Models and Energy Issues
Wireless sensor networks consist of hundreds to thousands of sensor nodes with limited computational and energy resources. Sensors are densely deployed over an area of interest, where they gather and disseminate local data using multi-hop communications, i.e. using other nodes as relays. A typical network configuration includes a large collection of stationary sensors operating in an unattended mode, which need to send their data to a node which collects the networks’ information, the so-called sink node.
Traditionally, network designers have used either computer simulations or analytical frameworks to predict and analyze a system’s behavior. Modeling large sensor networks, however, raises several challenges due to scalability problems and high computational costs. With regard to simulations, several software tools have been extended and developed to deal with large wireless networks, see [ZEN 98, SIM 03, LEV 03] just to name a few. As for analytical modeling, to the best of our knowledge, the only work dealing with large sensor networks is presented in [DOU 04], which employs percolation techniques.
This chapter presents spatial fluid-based models for the analysis of large-scale wireless networks. The technique is said to be fluid-based because it represents the sensor nodes as a fluid entity. Sensor location is smoothed out in continuous space by introducing the concept of local sensor density, i.e. the number of sensors per area unit at a given point.
The approach is applied to describe a network scenario where nodes are static and need to send the result of their sensing activity to a sink node. Sensors may send packets to the sink in a multi-hop fashion. Although this technique requires the introduction of simplified assumptions, that are necessary to maintain the problem tractable, these models account for (1) node energy consumption, (2) node contention over the radio channel and (3) traffic routing.
By the end of the chapter, three fundamental contributions are provided with respect to existing literature:
1) because of the fluid approach, very large networks can be studied while maintaining the model complexity extremely low;
2) the behavior of the network can be studied as a function of the bidimensional spatial distribution of the nodes, possibly under non-homogeneous node deployment;
3) the approach provides a very flexible and powerful tool, which can account for various routing strategies, sensor behaviors and network control schemes, such as congestion control mechanisms.
1.1. The fluid-based approach
The fluid approach is motivated by the observation that large-scale sensor networks can be represented by a continuous fluid entity distributed on the network area. This section describes the general framework, and the notation used to specify the model is summarized in Table 1.1.
Table 1.1. Model notation
1.1.1. Sensor density and traffic generation
Sensors are randomly placed over an area in the plane according to a Poisson point process with local intensity ρ(r), hereinafter also called the sensor density, which can vary from point to point. Let us identify each point in the plane by means of its coordinates r = (x, y).
The Poisson assumption implies that the number of sensors contained in an area A is distributed according to a Poisson distribution with parameter Γ(A), defined as:
The mean number of sensors present in the network is denoted by N, with ρ(r) dr = N. As an example, to define a system where there are (an average of) N sensors uniformly distributed over a disk of unit radius and the sink is located at the center of the disk (i.e. Sink = (0, 0)), it is correct to write:
[1.1]
Finally, it is fair to assume that a sensor s in position r generates traffic at rate λs(r). By aggregating all traffic generated by sensors over an infinitesimal area centered at point r, the generation rate density is defined as λ(r), which depends on the position r. This quantity, measured in packets per second per area unit, is proportional to both the local generation rate of a sensor and the local sensor density and corresponds to the mean number of packets per second generated by an infinitesimal area. It is defined as:
[1.2]
1.1.2. Data routing
The next hop used by a sensor to send a packet to the sink is determined in a probabilistic way. Indeed, the exact location of the sensors is unknown, thus u(r′|r) can be defined as the probability density that a packet transmitted by a sensor in position r uses a sensor in position r′ as its next hop. Since u(r′|r) must be a valid probability density, it is correct to have:
[1.3]
Probability density u(r′|r) depends on the particular routing policy.
1.1.3. Local and relay traffic rates
Each sensor can be both a traffic source and a relay for other sensors. The traffic rate density Λ(r) is equal to the sum of the traffic locally generated by the sensors at point r, and the traffic relayed for other nodes. By assuming that the system is stable, the total traffic rate density Λ(r) can be computed by solving the following integral