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First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities (TRIDENTCOM'05)
Wireless Link SNR Mapping Onto An Indoor Testbed
Trento, Italy
February 23-February 25
ISBN: 0-7695-2219-X
Jing Lei, Rutgers University, NJ
Roy Yates, Rutgers University, NJ
Larry Greenstein, Rutgers University, NJ
Hang Liu, Rutgers University, NJ
To facilitate a broad range of experimental research on novel protocols and application concepts, we consider an indoor wireless testbed to emulate the performance of real-world networks. A fundamental issue for emulation is the replication of communication links of specified quality. In particular, we need to replicate on the testbed, for every link in the real world, a communication link whose received signal-to-interference-and-noise-ratio (SINR) matches the corresponding link signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). In this paper, we focus on the downlink SNR mapping associated with a network with a single access point (AP). Four indoor wireless propagation models (commercial buildings with/without line-of-sight path and residential buildings with/without line-of-sight path) and two types of spatial distributions (uniform distribution inside a circular cell and uniform distribution along a line) have been investigated. Based on the characteristics of the indoor testbed, we propose a mapping method with one AP and one interferer, which separates the task into two phases: In the first phase, the best location and transmission power for the interferer node are determined; in the second phase, the topology of receiver nodes is configured by a minimum weight matching algorithm. Through analysis and simulations, we find that when the interferer node is located on the corner across from the AP, we can achieve a mapping range on the order of 57dB and an average root-mean-square (RMS) mapping error less than 1 dB.
Index Terms:
Indoor Testbed, Path Loss, Downlink, SNR, Minimum Weight Matching
Citation:
Jing Lei, Roy Yates, Larry Greenstein, Hang Liu, "Wireless Link SNR Mapping Onto An Indoor Testbed," tridentcom, pp.130-135, First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities (TRIDENTCOM'05), 2005
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