Unidirectional links prove costly in wireless ad hoc networks
DIALM '99 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communications
Routing performance in the presence of unidirectional links in multihop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Performance of multihop wireless networks: shortest path is not enough
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Optimizing the implementation of a MANET routing protocol in a heterogeneous environment
ISCC '03 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications
Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Outdoor experimental comparison of four ad hoc routing algorithms
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Experimental Evaluation of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols
PERCOMW '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Experimental comparisons between SAODV and AODV routing protocols
WMuNeP '05 Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling
Characterizing mobile ad hoc networks -: the maniac challenge experiment
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
Performance Analysis of OLSR and BATMAN Protocols Considering Link Quality Parameter
AINA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
OLSR performance measurement in a military mobile ad hoc network
Ad Hoc Networks
Lessons from experimental MANET research
Ad Hoc Networks
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Traditional evaluation studies of MANET routing protocols have concentrated on quantitative, traffic-based metrics like throughput and packet loss. These metrics provide a limited evaluation of protocol performance because they do not measure how well the protocol finds and maintains routes, only how well functional routes perform, once established. This work proposes a method for assessing how well a proactive MANET routing protocol tracks the network topology by comparing the reported routes to the actual topology. This study exposes the impact of routing message propagation and message loss on MANET routing by showing the existence of errant routes and protocol-reported information, specifically broken routes, incorrect routing table hop counts, and existing routes that were not found by the protocol. We use this approach to analyze the performance of the OLSR protocol in a medium-sized MANET, using data from the MANIAC Challenge. The results favor OLSR, but expose errant routes, how often they occur and for how long.