BibTeX for papers by David Kotz; for complete/updated list see https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/papers.html @Article{liu:jdirex, author = {Jason Liu and Yougu Yuan and David M. Nicol and Robert S. Gray and Calvin C. Newport and David Kotz and Luiz Felipe Perrone}, title = {{Empirical Validation of Wireless Models in Simulations of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols}}, journal = {Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International}, year = 2005, month = {April}, volume = 81, number = 4, pages = {307--323}, publisher = {Sage Publications}, copyright = {Simulation Councils}, DOI = {10.1177/0037549705055017}, URL = {https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/liu-jdirex/index.html}, note = {``Best of PADS 2004'' special issue}, abstract = {Computer simulation has been used extensively as an effective tool in the design and evaluation of systems. One should not, however, underestimate the importance of validation--- the process of ensuring whether a simulation model is an appropriate representation of the real-world system. Validation of wireless network simulations is difficult due to strong interdependencies among protocols at different layers and uncertainty in the wireless environment. The authors present an approach of coupling direct-execution simulation and traces from real outdoor experiments to validating simple wireless models that are used commonly in simulations of wireless ad hoc networks. This article documents a common testbed that supports direct execution of a set of ad hoc routing protocol implementations in a wireless network simulator. By comparing routing behavior measured in the real experiment with behavior computed by the simulation, the authors validate the models of radio behavior upon which protocol behavior depends.}, }