A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols
Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih‐Chun Hu, Jorjeta G. Jetcheva · 1998
An ad hoc networkis a collwtion of wirelessmobile nodes dynamically forminga temporarynetworkwithouttheuse of anyexistingnetworkirrfrastructureor centralizedadministration.Dueto the limitedtransmissionrange of ~vlreless nenvorkinterfaces,multiplenetwork"hops"maybe neededfor onenodeto exchangedata ivithanotheracrox the network.In recentyears, a ttiery of nelvroutingprotocols~geted specificallyat this environment have been developed.butlittle pcrfomrartwinformationon mch protocol and no ralistic performancecomparisonbehvwrrthem ISavailable.~Is paper presentsthe results of a derailedpacket-levelsimulationcomparing fourmulti-hopwirelessad hoc networkroutingprotocolsthatcovera range of design choices: DSDV,TORA, DSR and AODV.\Vehave extended the /~r-2networksimulatorto accuratelymodelthe MACand physical-layer behaviorof the IEEE 802.1I wirelessLAN standard,includinga realistic wtrelesstransmissionchannelmodel, and present the resultsof simulations of net(vorksof 50 mobilenodes.This work was supported in