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In this chapter two example use cases are presented on how a simulation study for a particular scenario is conducted and which modeling decisions are taken with respect to the goal of the study. These two sections are built on top of the previous chapters but focused on particular questions for investigation. Also they highlight important modeling options and their respective performance impact. In particular, we consider next the issue of coexistence for wireless local area networks as well as the issue of wireless body area network performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Apart from the general issue of modeling the channel, the PHY and the MAC of wireless networks, there are specific modeling assumptions that are considered for different systems. In this chapter we consider three specific wireless standards and highlight modeling options for them. These are IEEE 802.11 (as example for wireless local area networks), IEEE 802.16 (as example for wireless metropolitan networks) and IEEE 802.15 (as example for body area networks). Each section on these three systems discusses also at the end a set of model implementations that are available today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]