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BIR and LIR measured 5 days apart


We used the same settings as the baseline scenario, but did only the broadcast experiments. We compare $BIR$ calculated from these experiments with the $LIR$ measured in the baseline experiment. The two experiments were done 5 days apart. The CDF of absolute error is shown in Figure 6. The graph also shows the baseline error CDF (labeled ``Back-to-back''') for comparison purposes. We see that $BIR$ is still generally a good predictor of $LIR$, but as expected, the error is somewhat higher compared to the baseline (back-to-back) case. The median error is only 0.01, and mean is 0.049. The results show that even in a static environment like ours, the interference patterns are slightly different at different times. The need to repeat interference measurements underscores the need for an inexpensive experimental methodology to measure interference.




Ananth Rao
2005-08-11