Identifying Design Requirements for Wireless Routing Link Metrics

Author

Javaid, Nadeem ; Ullah, Muti ; Djouani, Karim

Author_Institution

LISSI, Univ. Paris-Est Creteil (UPEC), Creteil, France

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we identify and analyze the requirements to design a new routing link metric for wireless multi- hop networks. Considering these requirements, when a link metric is proposed, then both the design and implementation of the link metric with a routing protocol become easy. Secondly, the underlying network issues can easily be tackled. Thirdly, an appreciable performance of the network is guaranteed. Along with the existing implementation of three link metrics Expected Transmission Count (ETX), Minimum Delay (MD), and Minimum Loss (ML), we implement inverse ETX; invETX with Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) using NS-2.34. The simulation results show that how the computational burden of a metric degrades the performance of the respective protocol and how a metric has to trade-off between different performance parameters.

Keywords

radio networks; routing protocols; NS-2.34; design requirements; expected transmission count; minimum delay; minimum loss; optimized link state routing; routing protocol; wireless multihop networks; wireless routing link metrics; Delay; Routing; Routing protocols; Throughput; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Houston, TX, USA

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9266-4

Electronic_ISBN

1930-529X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134360

Filename

6134360