Data rate of connections in performing packet delivery of Wireless Mesh Network using Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol and Optimized Link State Routing protocol

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) relies in routing protocols for route discovery from sender to receiving nodes. There are two routing protocols that are evaluated: Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR). Packet delivery is very crucial in telecommunication. Data rate of connections relate closely with the performance of packet delivery in telecommunication especially WMN. HWMP and OLSR have different mechanisms of route discovery which are affected by the changes of data rate of connections and can affect the packet delivery of data. This experiment focuses in evaluating the performance of both protocols under different conditions of data rate of connections. The objective of this experiment is to evaluate the performance of both protocols and find the relevancy between the results of simulations and theories of the mechanism of both protocols. All of the simulations are done with using Network Simulator Version 3. The simulations are done for more than 100 times in order to get the consistency of the results of simulations and to evaluate the natural behaviors of both protocols.