UW FuNLab Underwater Acoustic Networks

Interference range experiment results

The interference range experiment consisted of ns2 simulations with 3 nodes, a transmitter, a receiver, and an interferer. Each simulation consisted of the transmitter and receiver being held a fixed distance apart while the range between the interferer and the receiver was varied from 10m to 5000m in 50m intervals. The transmitter and the interferer are both saturated with data and thus transmitted continuously for approx 2000 seconds. When the interfer was a sufficient distance from the receiver, throughput was measured high, and when the received signal strength from the interferer was sufficient to block reception of the transmitter's packets, throughput was measured 0. The RX threshold was set to 10 dB. The transmit power was set to 190 dB. The Thermocline SSP was used. Simulations were conducted with the receiver 0m to 600m from the transmitter, at 100m intervals. The configuration file containing all specified paramaters is available here