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A general approach to the evaluation and characterization of packet radio networks performance

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In this work a general exact methodology for capture effect and performance evaluation of packet radio networks is presented. Both narrow-band and spread-spectrum systems are investigated and compared. Several network performance quality indexes are considered: throughput, outage probability, packet error probability, average delay time. Two particular capture effect models are investigated. It can be seen that one of the two models can be considered as a good approximation of the other if a appropriate parameter definition is made. By using this methodology various operating conditions given by fading (Rice, Rayleigh, Nakagami), shadowing, different traffic models, different modulation, and coding schemes are investigated. Comparison is performed by means of spectral efficiency parity.

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Dardari, D. A general approach to the evaluation and characterization of packet radio networks performance. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 3, 203–217 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02109336

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