Comparison of Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Network on the Basis of Performance
Waqas Ahmad, Awais Salman Qazi · International Journal of Networks and Communications · 2018
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are acquiring tremendous change and moving on a fast pace in the field of telecommunications and internet systems. They are having rapid progress and many scintillating deployments. WMN is a reliable technology that is used to remove the limitations and to increase the performance of ad-hoc networks, wireless local area networks, wireless personal area networks and wireless metropolitan area networks. WMNs are consisted of mesh routers, mesh clients and gateways, where mesh routers are the backbone. WMN is an extraordinary type of wireless ad-hoc networks. One of the core issues in WMNs is resource management, which includes routing, which is not possible without routing protocols. There are specific protocols that gives better execution/performance when tested under certain parameters. Protocols are the set of rules that govern data communication. There can be many parameters in WMN, some of them are end to end delay, hop-count, jitter, latency, packet loss, capacity, handover speed, re-convergence, piggybacking, throughput, mobility rate and network load. Three routing protocols named Advanced on Demand Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) have been tested in WMN under certain parameters which are end to end delay, throughput and network load. The testing of these routing protocols has been performed in the Riverbed modeler 14.5. The captured outcomes from Riverbed modeler have been displayed in this research paper in the form of graphs.