Routing Protocols Performance in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Using Millimeter Wave

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the performance of routing protocols in millimeter wave (mmWave) Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, revealing significant improvements in delivery rates and power efficiency over traditional sub-6 GHz frequencies, crucial for 5G advancements.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive simulation-based analysis of routing protocols in mmWave MANETs using the ns-3 mmwave module, highlighting their potential benefits for 5G networks.

Findings

Improved delivery rates with mmWave frequencies.

Reduced power consumption in mmWave MANETs.

Significant performance gains over sub-6 GHz bands.

Abstract

Self-Organized networks (SONs) have been studied for many years, and have attracted many researchers due to their substantial applications. Although the performance of such networks in the lower band networks (sub-6 GHz band frequencies) has been well studied, there are only sparse studies on SON in higher frequency bands, such as the millimeter wave (mmWave) band ranges between 28GHz and 300GHz. mmWave frequencies have attracted many researchers in the past few years because of its unique features and are now considered as an important part of the next generation of wireless communications namely (5G).In this paper, we study the performance of some well-known routing protocols in the case of mmWave Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) using the ns-3 mmwave module that was developed recently. SONs are within the goals for the next release of the 3GPP New Radio (NR) standardization process (Release-16) for the 5G, which makes the study of the behavior of such frequency bands for these networks an important activity towards achieving such goal. Mathematical and simulation results show a great improvement in the routing protocols delivery rates and power consumption when using mmWave compared to the sub6GHz band frequencies.