Evaluating Wireless Proactive Routing Protocols under Mobility and Scalability Constraints

TL;DR

This paper develops Linear Programming models to evaluate the performance of proactive routing protocols in wireless multi-hop networks under mobility and scalability constraints, providing insights into protocol efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces LP_models for WMhNs and compares three proactive routing protocols under mobility and traffic load scenarios.

Findings

LP_models effectively evaluate protocol constraints

OLSR outperforms DSDV and FSR in scalability

Protocol strategies impact network performance significantly

Abstract

Wireless Multi-hop Networks (WMhNs) provide users with the facility to communicate while moving with whatever the node speed, the node density and the number of traffic flows they want, without any unwanted delay and/or disruption. This paper contributes Linear Programming models (LP_models) for WMhNs. In WMhNs, different routing protocols are used to facilitate users demand(s). To practically examine the constraints of respective LP_models over different routing techniques, we select three proactive routing protocols; Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV), Fish-eye State Routing (FSR) and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR). These protocols are simulated in two important scenarios regarding to user demands; mobilities and different network flows. To evaluate the performance, we further relate the protocols strategy effects on respective constraints in selected network scenarios.