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On the reliability and performance of real-time one-hop broadcast MANETs

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Recently, broadcast communications in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been deployed in many mission-critical applications. So far, most investigations of such broadcast networks focus on multi-hop connectivity taking all one-hop links for granted. In this paper, the reliability and performance of real-time one-hop broadcast services in IEEE 802.11 based MANETs are investigated analytically and by simulation. Having specified possible applications and the features of IEEE 802.11 broadcast communication in dynamically self-organized networks under harsh communication environment, analyses are conducted to derive closed form expressions of the reliability and performance indices for both one-dimensional (1-D) and two-dimensional (2-D) broadcast MANETs: packet reception rate (PRR) and packet transmission delay. The proposed analytical models account for the impact of broadcast hidden terminal problem, message arrival interval, backoff counter process, space distributions of nodes, and fading transmission channel on the reliability and performance of the broadcast MANETs. As an example, the proposed models are applied to the evaluation of safety-related inter-vehicle communication on a highway. From the obtained numerical results under various offered traffic and network parameters, new observations and effective enhancement suggestions are given.

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Ma, X. On the reliability and performance of real-time one-hop broadcast MANETs. Wireless Netw 17, 1323–1337 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-011-0351-x

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