EE 597 Final Project

This project is to validate the analytical model presented by Bianchi for computing the saturation throughput performance of the IEEE 802.11 protocol. We needed to use Matlab and NS-3 simulator to simulate the performance of 802.11 and plot the saturation throughput vs. number of stations graph. Then compare the result with the plot generated from Bianchi’s paper.

 

In the simulation, plot the saturation throughput vs. number of stations graph by varying the backoff window size and stage number. The final plots show that Matlab simulation matches Bianchi’s plot perfectly, yet NS-3 simulation shows different trend as number of station increases.

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I learned how to model a Markov chain in Matlab, and how to configure a network topology in NS-3 after this project. In addition, I also learned how to retrieve useful information from a professional paper that makes my searching work quicker in the future work.