Performance Evaluation Journal: Special Issue on “Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks”

This special issue collects nine contributions, with both theoretical and practical results on many aspects of modeling and performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks. The contributions touch a wide spectrum of different modeling and performance evaluation techniques, like queuing networks, Markov models, network calculus, event-based and numerical simulation, experimentation and testbeds. These methodologies have been applied to problems and scenarios of relevant interest like the analysis of queuing disciplines in realtime QoS-aware multicast routing and multimedia applications in ad hoc networks, worst case dimensioning and modeling of multihop sensor networks, new protocols for coverage management, power-saving, data collection, reliability management, rate adaptation and throughput improvements in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks, capacity analysis of MIMO wireless channels in mobile ad hoc networks, realistic mobility models for special scenarios (like disaster areas).