Performance study and simulation of an anycast protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks

TL;DR

This paper presents a simulation-based analysis of an anycast routing protocol in wireless mobile ad hoc networks, focusing on how node speed, TTL, and transmission parameters affect network performance.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive simulation framework and results for understanding the impact of mobility and routing parameters on ad hoc network performance.

Findings

Node speed significantly affects network metrics.

Transmission radius influences link availability.

Performance varies with TTL settings.

Abstract

This paper conducts a detailed simulation study of stateless anycast routing in a mobile wireless ad hoc network. The model covers all the fundamental aspects of such networks with a routing mechanism using a scheme of orientation-dependent inter-node communication links. The simulation system Winsim is used which explicitly represents parallelism of events and processes in the network. The purpose of these simulations is to investigate the effect of node s maximum speed, and different TTL over the network performance under two different scenarios. Simulation study investigates five practically important performance metrics of a wireless mobile ad hoc network and shows the dependence of this metrics on the transmission radius, link availability, and maximal possible node speed.