Analytical Modeling of Wireless Communication Systems

Preface

This book has been conceptualized by three friends who, for more than 10 years, have worked together in the field of communication network modeling and have decided to collect their work in a single book. The main purpose of the book is indeed to show some analytical and simulation techniques exploited by the authors to investigate different scenarios of wireless networks. For each developed approach, the technical details are presented together with the characteristics that make it suitable for the particular case considered.

There exist many works focused on the evaluation of wireless networks. The examples presented in this book highlight the use of techniques able to overcome scalability issues that often make the task of studying large wireless networks exceedingly complex. The presentation of different approaches, such as fluid models, mean field analysis, Markovian transient techniques, just to mention a few, are supported by application examples describing relevant case studies. Furthermore, a complete investigation of the parameters shows how to exploit analytical and simulation models for the development and management of sensor, vehicular and cellular networks. The outcome is an interesting review on the development and use of models for the evaluation of wireless networks.

This book could not have been possible without the help of the co-authors of our previous works, on which this book is based. In particular, we wish to thank Dr. Claudio Casetti, Dr. Marco ...