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Experimental results from a MANET testbed in outdoor bridge environment considering BATMAN routing protocol

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A set of wireless mobile terminals, which cooperate by routing packets to each other creates a Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). MANETs are continuing to grow their interest in research environment and they are attracting attention for their potential use in several fields such as collaborative computing and disaster recovery environments. Considering mobility of the terminals, the topology changes rapidly and routing becomes a key process for operation of MANETs. In this paper, we analyze the performance of Better Approach To MANET (BATMAN) routing protocol in an outdoor bridge environment considering mobility and vertical communication. We implement two scenarios on our testbed and evaluate the performance in terms of throughput and packetloss.

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

Abbreviations

MANET:

Mobile Ad-hoc Network

BATMAN:

Better Approach to Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

IEEE:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

OLSR:

Optimized link state routing

LQWS:

Link quality window size

DSR:

Dynamic source routing

ETX:

Expected transmission count

OGM:

Originator message

TTL:

Time to live

SQ:

Sequence number

NBRF:

Neighbor ranking sequence frame

OBST:

Outdoor bridge static

OBSM:

Outdoor bridge source moving

OBDM:

Outdoor bridge destination moving

AP:

Access point

D-ITG:

Distributed Internet Traffic Generator

GUI:

Graphical user interface

CBR:

Constant bit rate

MT:

Mesh topology

DTR:

Data transmission rate

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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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  1. Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Elis Kulla, Makoto Ikeda, Tetsuya Oda & Leonard Barolli

  2. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelon, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

  3. Polytechnic University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

    Aleksander Biberaj

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Kulla, E., Ikeda, M., Oda, T. et al. Experimental results from a MANET testbed in outdoor bridge environment considering BATMAN routing protocol. Computing 95, 1073–1086 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-012-0225-9

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