WiPPET, a virtual testbed for parallel simulations of wireless networks
Jignesh S. Panchal, O.E. Kelly, Jie Lai, Narayan B. Mandayam, Andrew T. Ogielski, Roy D. Yates · 1998
We describe the TED/C ++ implementation of WIPPET, a parallel simulation testbed for evaluating radio resource management algorithms and wireless transport protocols. Versions 0.3 and 0.4 of the testbed model radio propagation (long-- and short--scale fading and interference) and protocols for integrated radio resource management in mobile wireless voice networks including the standards-- based AMPS, NA--TDMA and GSM protocols, and several research--oriented protocol families. We provide parallel performance data verifying that the dominant computational demand due to received signal quality calculation can be partitioned geographically, by orthogonal radio channels, or in a hybrid manner. 1 Introduction We begin with a discussion of the simulator itself, its purpose, and the nature of the phenomena it models. Simulations of wireless networks differ considerably from simulations of wired networks in that they have to include modeling of the geographic environment and physical chann...