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Tesi etd-07192007-164834


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di dottorato di ricerca
Autore
Barsocchi, Paolo
URN
etd-07192007-164834
Titolo
Packet Loss in Terrestrial Wireless and Hybrid Networks
Settore scientifico disciplinare
ING-INF/03
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE
Relatori
Relatore Prof. Manara, Giuliano
Relatore Prof. Russo, Franco
Relatore Ing. Potortì, Francesco
Relatore Prof. Giordano, Stefano
Parole chiave
  • frame error model
  • Hybrid networks
  • Packet loss
  • propagation model
  • Wi-Fi networks
Data inizio appello
25/05/2007
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
The presence of both a geostationary satellite link and a terrestrial local wireless link on the same path of a given network connection is becoming increasingly common, thanks to the popularity of the IEEE 802.11 protocol. The most common situation where a hybrid network comes into play is having a Wi-Fi link at the network edge and the satellite link somewhere in the network core. Example of scenarios where this can happen are ships or airplanes where Internet connection on board is provided through a Wi-Fi access point and a satellite link with a geostationary satellite; a small office located in remote or isolated area without cabled Internet access; a rescue team using a mobile ad hoc Wi-Fi network connected to the Internet or to a command centre through a mobile gateway using a satellite link. The serialisation of terrestrial and satellite wireless links is problematic from the point of view of a number of applications, be they based on video streaming, interactive audio or TCP. The reason is the combination of high latency, caused by the geostationary satellite link, and frequent, correlated packet losses caused by the local wireless terrestrial link. In fact, GEO satellites are placed in equatorial orbit at 36,000 km altitude, which takes the radio signal about 250 ms to travel up and down. Satellite systems exhibit low packet loss most of the time, with typical project constraints of 10−8 bit error rate 99% of the time, which translates into a packet error rate of 10−4, except for a few days a year. Wi-Fi links, on the other hand, have quite different characteristics. While the delay introduced by the MAC level is in the order of the milliseconds, and is consequently too small to affect most applications, its packet loss characteristics are generally far from negligible. In fact, multipath fading, interference and collisions affect most environments, causing correlated packet losses: this means that often more than one packet at a time is lost for a single fading event
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