Real-world performance of current proactive multi-hop mesh protocols

Authors:
M. Abolhasan;B. Hagelstein;J. C.-P. Wang
Affiliations:
Information & Communication Technology Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia;Information & Communication Technology Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia;Information & Communication Technology Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Venue:
APCC'09 Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific conference on Communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The proliferation of mesh or ad hoc network protocols has lead to a push for protocol standardisation. While there are a number of both open-source and proprietary mesh routing protocols being developed, there is only a small amount of literature available that shows relative strengths and weaknesses of different protocols. This paper investigates the performance of a number of available routing protocols using a real-world testbed. Three routing protocols - Optimised Link State Routing (OLSR), Better Approach To Mobile Ad hoc Network (B.A.T.M.A.N.) and BABEL - were chosen for this study. Our investigations focus on the multi-hopping performance and the ability of each routing protocol to recover from link failures. Our results show that B.A.T.M.A.N. and BABEL outperform OLSR both in terms of multi-hopping performance and in route re-discovery latency.