Performance comparison of a beacon-aided source routing protocol to on-demand source-initiated routing protocols

In source-initiated on-demand routing protocols, a non-ignorable amount of network bandwidth is consumed in route discovery and maintenance. In this paper, we present a beacon-aided source routing protocol aiming to reduce the amount of bandwidth consumed in routing, as well as to enhance success rates of delivering data packets and to be robust to unstable network conditions. We demonstrate the advantage of the BASR protocol by comparing its performance to other source-initiated routing protocols. The performance comparison is conducted through simulating mobile wireless networks. In the simulated wireless network scenarios, the performance of the BASR protocol exhibits high rates of successful data delivery, low consumption on network bandwidth, and robustness to unstable network conditions.