An Emulated IPv6 Based Self-Configuring Multi-Hop Mobile Network Testbed: Architecture and Performance Analysis

Author

Audsin, Dev Pramil ; Aghvami, A. Hamid ; Friderikos, Vasilis

Author_Institution

Centre for Telecommun. Res., King´´s Coll. London, London

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes the architecture of a self-configuring multi-hop mobile network and analyse the performance of the ad-hoc routing protocols. A testbed is deployed to analyse the performance of the ad-hoc routing protocols in a self-configuring multi-hop environment. The testbed comprises of a set of mobile nodes and an Internet gateway. The mobility of the nodes and the resulting network topology are emulated. During the experiments, the mobile node move virtually around a specified area and communicated with the gateway by sending UDP packets. The routing between the MNs and the Internet gateway is established by the ad-hoc routing protocols namely AODV and OLSR. Based on the measurements obtained during the experiments, some of the well known performance metrics are calculated.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; ad hoc networks; mobile communication; performance evaluation; routing protocols; telecommunication network topology; AODV; IPv6 network; Internet gateway; OLSR; UDP packet; ad-hoc routing protocol; mobile node; network architecture; network performance; network topology; performance metrics; self-configuring multihop mobile network; Automatic testing; Communications Society; Educational institutions; Internet; Measurement; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. WCNC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2947-9

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917577

Filename

4917577