The Comparison Study of Flat Routing and Hierarchical Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Author

Pang, Kong Ling ; Qin, Yang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ.

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the flat routing and hierarchical routing protocols in ad hoc wireless networks. Flat and hierarchical routing are two most typical routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks. There have been many researches working on studying different flat or hierarchical routing protocols separately. However, there are little works about a comprehensive comparison study between these two kinds of routing protocols. As there are many protocols for both flat and hierarchical routing protocol, it is necessary to study their advantages and disadvantages, so that we could provide guidance for the deployment of different protocols in different networks configuration. This paper will study the performance of hierarchical routing protocols as compare to flat routing protocols. Our study is based on an extensive simulation using NS2

Keywords

ad hoc networks; routing protocols; ad hoc wireless networks; flat routing protocol; hierarchical routing protocol; Bandwidth; Clustering algorithms; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network topology; Routing protocols; Scalability; Spine; Wireless networks; Ad hoc networks; performance evaluation; routing protocols; wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2006. ICON '06. 14th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1556-6463

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9746-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2006.302584

Filename

4087684