A Performance Comparison of Two Mesh Routing Protocols
Minseok Oh · Proceedings of KIIT Summer Conference · 2011
In this paper, we compare two mesh routing protocols, BATMAN-ADV and FLAME, which run on Layer 2 of the OSI reference model. Those are a few protocols available in software package incorporated into the OpenWrt OS for embedded systems. Our experiments involves the throughput and delay performance on a linear mesh network over varying number of hops between end nodes. We have used 5.8 ㎓ channel bands to avoid any interference with existing 802.11g radios. The results show that BATMAN-ADV performs better than FLAME slightly. The better performance is due to the elaborate routing mechanism and up-to-date release of BATMAN-ADV compared to FLAME.