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Implementation and performance measurement and analysis of OLSR protocol

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This paper provides a measurement-based performance evaluation of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. Two versions of OLSR, OLSR-ETX and OLSR-ETT, are implemented and evaluated on a mesh network that we built from off-the-shelf commercial components. OLSR-ETX uses the Expected Transmission Count (ETX) metric whereas, OLSR-ETT uses the Expected Transmission Time (ETT) metric as a means of assessing link quality. The paper describes our implementation process of the ETT metric using the plug-in feature of OLSRd, and our calculation method of link bandwidth using the packet-pair technique. A series of measurements are conducted in our testbed to analyze and compare the performance of ETX and ETT metrics. Our measurements show that OLSR-ETT outperforms OLSR-ETX significantly in terms of packet loss, end-to-end delay, and stability, yielding a much more robust, reliable, and efficient routing.

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IWCMC '10: Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
June 2010
1371 pages
ISBN:9781450300629
DOI:10.1145/1815396
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  1. ETT
  2. ETX
  3. OLSR
  4. metrics
  5. multihop
  6. routing
  7. testbed
  8. topology

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