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Performance analysis of multi-hop ad-hoc network using multi-flow traffic for indoor scenarios

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In this paper, we present the performance analysis of two link state routing protocols: OLSR and B.A.T.M.A.N.. We investigate the effect of mobility and topology changing in the throughput of a MANET testbed. We study the impact of best-effort traffic for two link state routing protocols. We also investigate the impact of multi-flow traffic in the network. Experimental time is 10 s. In this work, we consider three experimental models and we assess the performance of our testbed in terms of throughput, round trip time and packet loss. From our experiments, we found that B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol has better goodput than OLSR protocol. However, for mobile nodes, OLSR protocol has better goodput than B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol.

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  1. That is the probability that broadcast messages are received by all nodes in the network.

  2. GW node ID is #1.

  3. As far as we know the latest kernel include rt2500usb driver. However, this driver does not work for ad-hoc mode.

  4. For LT, we construct the chain by using IP filtering at MAC layer. Thus, we built a logical topology not a physical topology. This means that although transmission from one node to a distant one are blocked, the radio medium in any case is affected by all transmissions. The IP filtering speeds up the setting of topology, but the cost to pay is a residual self-interference due to the system.

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This work is supported by a Grant-in-Aid for scientific research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The authors would like to thank JSPS for the financial support.

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Hiyama, M., Ikeda, M., Barolli, L. et al. Performance analysis of multi-hop ad-hoc network using multi-flow traffic for indoor scenarios. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 1, 283–293 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-010-0021-3

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