Abstract :
We present an extensive ns-2 (K. Fall and K. Varadhan) simulation-based performance comparison of three widely known stability-oriented mobile ad hoc network routing protocols: associativity-based routing (ABR) protocol (C-K Toh, 1997), flow-oriented routing protocol (FORP) (W. Su et al., 2001) and route assessment based routing (RABR) protocol (S. Agarwal et al., 2000). The order of the ranking of the protocols in terms of the packet delivery ratio and the number of route transitions is as follows: FORP, RABR, and ABR. The order of ranking in terms of the average hop count per route and end-to-end delay per packet is: ABR, RABR, and FORP. Thus, we see a stability-delay tradeoff within the class of stability-oriented routing protocols
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; associativity-based routing protocol; end-to-end delay; flow-oriented routing protocol; mobile ad hoc networks; packet delivery ratio; route assessment based routing protocol; route transitions; stability-oriented routing protocols; Batteries; Computational modeling; Current measurement; Delay; Mobile ad hoc networks; Out of order; Peer to peer computing; Routing protocols; Stability; Topology;
