ABSTRACT Current routing mechanisms proposed for adhocnetworks are still feasibly applied in Wire... more ABSTRACT Current routing mechanisms proposed for adhocnetworks are still feasibly applied in Wireless Mesh Networks given their similarities. Many researchers have conducted numerous simulations for comparing the performances of these routing protocols under various conditions and constraints. Most made comparisons are not aware of PHY/MAC layers and their impact on routing performances. In this paper we study through simulations the impact of PHY/MAC protocols on higher layers. The considered protocols include three propagation models, i.e., Free Space, TwoRayGround and Shadowing, three different PHY/MAC protocols specified IEEE 802.11 standards namely, 802.11b, 802.11s and 802.11n, and finally three routing protocols, i.e., AODV, OLSR and HWMP. In a comparative way, we investigate the effectiveness of these protocols when they coexist on a wireless mesh network environment. Our results show that the routing strategy can significantly impact the network performance only if it is strongly linked to the characteristics of the lower layers.
2013 ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2013
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the design of effective routing metrics in the purpose of networ... more ABSTRACT This paper investigates the design of effective routing metrics in the purpose of network resources optimization and the satisfaction of users QoS requirements. Using several real experiments, we point out the shortcoming of the Expected Transmission Count (ETX) metric for eventual optimizations towards a more efficient routing. Experiments were carried out into an heterogeneous IEEE 802.11n based network running with OLSR routing protocol and have shown that ETX presents several shortcoming resulting in inaccurate estimation of the link quality and then of the routing decision. This paper presents improvements of the ETX metric based on link availibility for accurately finding high-throughput paths in multihop wireless mesh networks.
ABSTRACT This paper provides a description of a wireless mesh network testbed setup and a measure... more ABSTRACT This paper provides a description of a wireless mesh network testbed setup and a measurement-based performance evaluation of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol [7] under three different routing metrics. The considered metrics include hop-count, ETX and ETT. The network performances are evaluated in an indoor testbed formed by heterogeneous MIMO devices. A part of our tests was about the impact of 802.11n features on the network performances showing the importance of lower layers consideration. Our measurements point out the shortcoming of each metric and eventual optimizations towards a more efficient routing. Experimental results show that OLSR-ETT outperforms OLSR-ETX and OLSR-hopcount significantly in terms of packet loss, end-to-end delay, and efficiency.
2014 IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing and Communications, 2014 IEEE 6th Intl Symp on Cyberspace Safety and Security, 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Embedded Software and Syst (HPCC,CSS,ICESS), 2014
Global Information Infrastructure Symposium - GIIS 2013, 2013
ABSTRACT This paper presents two novel metrics, Link Occupancy aware routing Metric (LOM) and Res... more ABSTRACT This paper presents two novel metrics, Link Occupancy aware routing Metric (LOM) and Residual Link Capacity based routing metric with Interference Consideration (RLCIC), for accurately finding high-throughput paths in multihop wireless mesh networks. The first metric is load-sensitive and aims to balance the traffic load according to the availability of a link to support additional flows. The second metric reproduces better the capacity of a link since it is based on its residual bandwidth. It captures accurately the available path bandwidth information when considering both the intra-flow and the interflow interferences. Using several real experiments carried out into an heterogeneous IEEE 802.11n based network running with OLSR routing protocol, we have shown that our first proposal can accurately determine better paths in terms of throughput and delay, thereby significantly outperforming the other existing metrics. The consistency of the second metric RLCIC is proved formally based on notions of graph theory.
2012 International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2012
ABSTRACT The main goal of wireless sensor networks is to monitor a target field and transmit surv... more ABSTRACT The main goal of wireless sensor networks is to monitor a target field and transmit surveillance data to a sink. Therefore, connectivity of the sensor network and full coverage of the monitored area are the most relevant concerns to reach these goals. In order to maintain the connectivity, we propose in this paper an hierarchical model for the wireless sensor networks deployment which consists of dividing sensors in sets of equivalent nodes. We study the effectiveness of the model under different deployment strategies: random, circular and Poisson point process distributions. We investigate the impact of deployment strategies on (i) coverage (ii) connectivity ratio and (iii) the shortest path to sink.
ABSTRACT Current routing mechanisms proposed for adhocnetworks are still feasibly applied in Wire... more ABSTRACT Current routing mechanisms proposed for adhocnetworks are still feasibly applied in Wireless Mesh Networks given their similarities. Many researchers have conducted numerous simulations for comparing the performances of these routing protocols under various conditions and constraints. Most made comparisons are not aware of PHY/MAC layers and their impact on routing performances. In this paper we study through simulations the impact of PHY/MAC protocols on higher layers. The considered protocols include three propagation models, i.e., Free Space, TwoRayGround and Shadowing, three different PHY/MAC protocols specified IEEE 802.11 standards namely, 802.11b, 802.11s and 802.11n, and finally three routing protocols, i.e., AODV, OLSR and HWMP. In a comparative way, we investigate the effectiveness of these protocols when they coexist on a wireless mesh network environment. Our results show that the routing strategy can significantly impact the network performance only if it is strongly linked to the characteristics of the lower layers.
2013 ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2013
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the design of effective routing metrics in the purpose of networ... more ABSTRACT This paper investigates the design of effective routing metrics in the purpose of network resources optimization and the satisfaction of users QoS requirements. Using several real experiments, we point out the shortcoming of the Expected Transmission Count (ETX) metric for eventual optimizations towards a more efficient routing. Experiments were carried out into an heterogeneous IEEE 802.11n based network running with OLSR routing protocol and have shown that ETX presents several shortcoming resulting in inaccurate estimation of the link quality and then of the routing decision. This paper presents improvements of the ETX metric based on link availibility for accurately finding high-throughput paths in multihop wireless mesh networks.
ABSTRACT This paper provides a description of a wireless mesh network testbed setup and a measure... more ABSTRACT This paper provides a description of a wireless mesh network testbed setup and a measurement-based performance evaluation of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol [7] under three different routing metrics. The considered metrics include hop-count, ETX and ETT. The network performances are evaluated in an indoor testbed formed by heterogeneous MIMO devices. A part of our tests was about the impact of 802.11n features on the network performances showing the importance of lower layers consideration. Our measurements point out the shortcoming of each metric and eventual optimizations towards a more efficient routing. Experimental results show that OLSR-ETT outperforms OLSR-ETX and OLSR-hopcount significantly in terms of packet loss, end-to-end delay, and efficiency.
2014 IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing and Communications, 2014 IEEE 6th Intl Symp on Cyberspace Safety and Security, 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Embedded Software and Syst (HPCC,CSS,ICESS), 2014
Global Information Infrastructure Symposium - GIIS 2013, 2013
ABSTRACT This paper presents two novel metrics, Link Occupancy aware routing Metric (LOM) and Res... more ABSTRACT This paper presents two novel metrics, Link Occupancy aware routing Metric (LOM) and Residual Link Capacity based routing metric with Interference Consideration (RLCIC), for accurately finding high-throughput paths in multihop wireless mesh networks. The first metric is load-sensitive and aims to balance the traffic load according to the availability of a link to support additional flows. The second metric reproduces better the capacity of a link since it is based on its residual bandwidth. It captures accurately the available path bandwidth information when considering both the intra-flow and the interflow interferences. Using several real experiments carried out into an heterogeneous IEEE 802.11n based network running with OLSR routing protocol, we have shown that our first proposal can accurately determine better paths in terms of throughput and delay, thereby significantly outperforming the other existing metrics. The consistency of the second metric RLCIC is proved formally based on notions of graph theory.
2012 International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2012
ABSTRACT The main goal of wireless sensor networks is to monitor a target field and transmit surv... more ABSTRACT The main goal of wireless sensor networks is to monitor a target field and transmit surveillance data to a sink. Therefore, connectivity of the sensor network and full coverage of the monitored area are the most relevant concerns to reach these goals. In order to maintain the connectivity, we propose in this paper an hierarchical model for the wireless sensor networks deployment which consists of dividing sensors in sets of equivalent nodes. We study the effectiveness of the model under different deployment strategies: random, circular and Poisson point process distributions. We investigate the impact of deployment strategies on (i) coverage (ii) connectivity ratio and (iii) the shortest path to sink.
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