Performance study of end-to-end traffic-aware routing

Al-Qassas, R.S., Mackenzie, L.M. and Ould-Khaoua, M. (2006) Performance study of end-to-end traffic-aware routing. In: 39th Annual Simulation Symposium, 2006., Huntsville, Alabama, 2-6 April 2006., (doi: 10.1109/ANSS.2006.37)

Abstract

There has been a lot research effort on developing reactive routing algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) over the past few years. Most of these algorithms consider finding the shortest path from source to destination in building a route. However, this can lead to some network nodes being more overloaded than the others. In MANETs resources, such as node power and channel bandwidth are often at a premium and, therefore, it is important to optimise their use as much as possible. Consequently, a traffic-aware technique to distribute the load is very desirable in order to make good utilisation of nodes' resources. A number of traffic aware techniques have recently been proposed and can be classified into two categories: end-to-end and on-the-spot. The performance merits of the existing end-to-end traffic aware techniques have been analysed and compared against traditional routing algorithms. There has also been a performance comparison among the existing on-the-spot techniques. However, there has so far been no similar study that evaluates and compares the relative performance merits of end-to-end techniques. In this paper, we describe an extensive performance evaluation of two end-to-end techniques, based on degree of nodal activity and traffic density, using measures based on throughput, end-to-end delay and routing overhead.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Ould-Khaoua, Dr Mohamed and Mackenzie, Dr Lewis
• Authors: Al-Qassas, R.S., Mackenzie, L.M., and Ould-Khaoua, M.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ISSN: 1080-241X
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• First Published: First published in 39th Annual Simulation Symposium, 2006.
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