On Jul 1, 2011, at 9:31 PM, vinod kumar wrote:

> What are the sample values present in meyer-heavy.txt present in 
> tos/lib/noise ?? Are they some sample gain values? In the topology.txt, the 
> pattern is something like 
> "1   2   -87" which mean signal sent by 1 , received by 2 with gain -87.

meyer-heavy.txt are 1KHz samples taken of environmental interference. Please 
see:

HyungJune Lee, Alberto Cerpa, and Philip Levis.
Improving Wireless Simulation Through Noise Modeling. In Proceedings of the 
Sixth International Conference on Information Processing in Wireless Sensor 
Networks (IPSN), 2007.


> Are these values present inside topology.txt randomly generated? And the link 
> is made between the nodes whose pattern is found inside this toplogy.txt as 
> we have a link between '1' and '2' in the above case. But somebody told me 
> that link is formed between nodes whose gain value is greater than some 
> specific value. But the code below present in tutorial says that link is 
> formed for all the patterns present in topology.txt file .
> >>> f = open("topo.txt", "r")
> >>> lines = f.readlines()
> >>> for line in lines:
> ...   s = line.split()
> ...   if (len(s) > 0):
> ...     print " ", s[0], " ", s[1], " ", s[2];
> ...     r.add(int(s[0]), int(s[1]), float(s[2]))
> 
> The path loss equation is :
> Log-distance path loss model is formally expressed as:

Path loss models are insufficient to model a wireless network for reasonable 
testing purposes. The topology files incorporate a path loss model as well as 
hardware covariance, based on Zuniga's work.

Phil
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