Affiliation:
1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Abstract
The purpose of a screening experiment is to identify significant factors and interactions on a response for a system. Engineered systems are complex in part due to their size. To apply traditional experimental designs for screening in complex engineered systems requires either restricting the factors considered, which automatically restricts the interactions to those in the set, or restricting interest to main effects, which fails to consider any possible interactions. To address this problem we propose a locating array (LA) as a screening design. Locating arrays exhibit logarithmic growth in the number of factors because their focus is on identification rather than on measurement. This makes practical the consideration of an order of magnitude more factors in experimentation than traditional screening designs. We present preliminary results applying an LA for screening the response of TCP throughput in a simulation model of a mobile wireless network. The full-factorial design for this system is infeasible (over 1043 design points!) yet an LA has only 421 design points. We validate the significance of the identified factors and interactions independently using the statistical software JMP. Screening using locating arrays is viable and yields useful models.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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