Performance Evaluation of a WMN Testbed in Indoor Environment Considering Mobile Mesh Node Scenario

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are attracting a lot of attention from wireless network researchers, because of their potential use in several fields such as collaborative computing and communications. Considering mobility of the terminals, routing is a key process for operation of WMNs. In this paper, we present the implementation of a testbed for WMNs. We analyze the performance of Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol in an indoor scenario considering mobile mesh node. For evaluation we considered throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), hop count, delay and jitter metrics. The experimental results show that the nodes in the testbed were communicating smoothly and we got good values for five parameters.