Conclusions
, Accuracy of state information does matter
Realistic versions always performed poorer than ideal versions of the same protocol
variant
, Performance loss due to inaccurate state information can be as
high as 10%
, Initially exploration: some of the state information is really old
(in excess of 20 seconds) and therefore very inaccurate
In particular under high traffic load: control messages sometimes get lost
, Future work
Explore sources/reasons for inaccuracy in more depth
Explore ways to increase accuracy
, Wicon 2007: paper on “smart prediction”, which works well for monotonic state
information such as residual energy level
, Probing old information adds more control messages to the network and does not
help