The remarkable surge in research on ad hoc wireless networks is largely due to their potential in offering insfrastructureless communications. While initially studied adopting a "conventional" networking approach, based upon years of research experience on wired computer networks (with virtually error-free communication links), the presence of unreliable wireless communication links necessitates a communication-theoretic foundation for the design and analysis of wireless ad hoc networks. Such a novel comprehensive "bottom-up" perspective was, for the first time, presented in OK Tonguz et al. (2006). In this paper, we summarize the communication-theoretic framework, where the impact of physical layer on the network performance and its interaction with higher layers is taken into account. The main goal of this paper is to provide the reader with the intuition behind the comprehensive approach, rather than the mathematical details of the approach.
A communication-theoretic approach to ad hoc wireless networking / Tonguz, O. K.; Ferrari, Gianluigi. - (2006), pp. 715-722. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2006 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON '06) tenutosi a New York, NY, USA nel July 2006) [10.1109/SAHCN.2006.288536].
A communication-theoretic approach to ad hoc wireless networking
FERRARI, Gianluigi
2006-01-01
Abstract
The remarkable surge in research on ad hoc wireless networks is largely due to their potential in offering insfrastructureless communications. While initially studied adopting a "conventional" networking approach, based upon years of research experience on wired computer networks (with virtually error-free communication links), the presence of unreliable wireless communication links necessitates a communication-theoretic foundation for the design and analysis of wireless ad hoc networks. Such a novel comprehensive "bottom-up" perspective was, for the first time, presented in OK Tonguz et al. (2006). In this paper, we summarize the communication-theoretic framework, where the impact of physical layer on the network performance and its interaction with higher layers is taken into account. The main goal of this paper is to provide the reader with the intuition behind the comprehensive approach, rather than the mathematical details of the approach.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
