Comparative analysis of proactive, reactive and hybrid ad hoc routing protocols in Client based Wireless Mesh Network

Author

Zulfiqar Mughal, Fouzan ; Imran Azam, Mohammad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Iqra Univ., Karachi, Pakistan

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A detailed overview of Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) and the routing protocols used in it is given in this paper. Along with that a comparative analysis of different categories of ad hoc routing protocols is performed on a set of simulations which differs in the number of wireless nodes participating. The analysis is based on different performance metric like Delay, Throughput, Average Route Discovery Time and many more. The WMN deployment technique used in this paper is Client based where all the nodes form a mesh network. In the reactive category of the protocols AODV performs better that DSR and overall OLSR is the best performer according to the simulation results present in this paper.

Keywords

delays; routing protocols; wireless mesh networks; average route discovery time; client based wireless mesh network; comparative analysis; delay; hybrid ad hoc routing protocol; performance metric; proactive ad hoc routing protocol; reactive ad hoc routing protocol; throughput; wireless nodes; Delay; Mesh networks; Routing; Routing protocols; Throughput; AODV; OLSR; Wireless Mesh Network; ad-hoc networks; reactive routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Emerging Technologies (ICIET), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Karachi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8001-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIET.2010.5625711

Filename

5625711