A Comment on Link Dynamics and Protocol Design in a Multi-Hop Mobile Environment

Abbas Nayebi

doi:10.4236/wsn.2011.33012

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A Comment on Link Dynamics and Protocol Design in a Multi-Hop Mobile Environment ()

Abbas Nayebi

DOI: 10.4236/wsn.2011.33012 PDF HTML 5,585 Downloads 9,085 Views Citations

Abstract

This paper is a supplementary document for “Link Dynamics and Protocol Design in a Multi-Hop Mobile Environment” (ref. [1]), which presents an analytic model to obtain link lifetime in mobile wireless networks. The model outcome is used as groundwork for several mobility-related evaluations. Here, it is discussed how an improper assumption in the probabilistic model led to some errors in the resultant expressions. After a detailed description of the erratic assumption, a modification is proposed to correct the derivations. The results of the new model are verified by the simulation results provided at the original paper.

Keywords

Link Lifetime, Probabilistic Models

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A. Nayebi, "A Comment on Link Dynamics and Protocol Design in a Multi-Hop Mobile Environment," Wireless Sensor Network, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2011, pp. 114-116. doi: 10.4236/wsn.2011.33012.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	P. Samar and S. B. Wicker, “Link Dynamics and Protocol Design in a Multihop Mobile Environment,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 9, 2006, pp. 1156-1172. doi:10.1109/TMC.2006.131
[2]	P. Samar and S. B. Wicker, “On the Behavior of Com-munication Links of a Node in a Multi-Hop Mobile En-vironment,” Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Roppongi, 2004, pp. 145-156.