Overview
The present technology available for simulation of WLAN links is packet-level simulation. This technology evaluates WLANs by updating the system state at every packet arrival and departure; which is very time consuming for realistic networks and network loads.Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new approach of Timestepped stochastic simulation. This new method simulates WLANs by updating the system state only at the end of timesteps. Whatever the packet level simulation would do within a timestep is abstracted by an analytical computation in Timestepped stochastic simulation. Because the analytical computation is computationally cheaper than packet–level simulation, the new approach is much faster.
A fully featured simulator for wired-cum-wireless networks with a GUI front end and user-modifiable scripting interface and back end can be developed in the near future.
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