Quantifying Spatiotemporal Stability by means of Entropy: Approach and Motivations

Abstract: Several studies demonstrate that there are critical differences between real wireless networks and simulation models. This finding has permitted to extract spatial and temporal properties for links and to provide efficient methods as biased link sampling to guarantee efficient routing structure. Other works have focused on computing metrics to improve routing, specially the reuse of the measure of entropy. From there, rises the idea of formulating a new measure of entropy that gives an overview of the spatiotemporal stability of a link. This measure will rely on spatial and temporal properties of links and fed with the efficiency of biased link sampling.