Analytical approaches for short-range wireless technologies evaluation

Abstract

Analytical evaluation approaches play a very important role, when the applicability of short-range wireless technology is assessed for emerging applications and scenarios, like machine-to-machine, device-to-device, heterogeneous networking, etc. Due to a set of limitations of measuring and simulation strategies, a closed-form equation describing the network characteristics as a function of parameters could be very suitable in the cases, that were not studied before: new application, traffic pattern or scenario. This paper presents an overview of existing approaches aiming to evaluate different types of short-range networking. Starting from simple cases: channel modeling and saturated system analysis, we finally come to the stability criteria and different traffic patterns affect on the network performance.

Keywords

• Short-range networks
• Wireless networking
• Analytical approach
• Saturated network analysis
• Channel modeling
• Markov models
• Performance evaluation
• Overload control
• IEEE 802.11
• Wi-Fi
• CSMA/CA
• Machine-to-Machine