Validity of predicting connectivity in wireless ad hoc networks

Wireless ad hoc networks face many challenges in routing, power management, and basic connectivity. The ability to predict the future communication connectivity between two or more autonomous wireless nodes is greatly beneficial to wireless ad hoc networks. Existing research has looked into using predicted node movement as a means to improve connectivity. While past research has focused on assuming wireless signals propagate in clear free loss space, our previous research has focused on using signal loss maps to improve predictions. This paper presents novel testing of predicting connectivity based on our previous concept designs. We test the performance of predicting future node connectivity by analysing various test cases and detailing results produced using custom simulator tools we have created.