Performance Comparison of Flat and Cluster-Based Hierarchical Ad Hoc Routing with Entity and Group Mobility

Author

Zhang, Mingyang ; Chong, Peter H J

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Ad hoc routing protocols can be divided into flat and hierarchical routing. One typical way to build hierarchy is to group mobile nodes into clusters, thus decrease routing space and improve network performance. Mobility models also affect the performance of ad hoc routing protocols and can be divided into entity mobility and group mobility models. This paper first studies the performance of flat routing, AODV and DSR, and cluster-based hierarchical routing, CBRP and ECBRP, on entity mobility, Random Waypoint, and group mobility, RPGM and RRGM. Performance comparisons between flat and cluster- based hierarchical routing protocols in different mobility models are analyzed. We have observed that the effects of group mobility on routing protocols are significantly different from that of entity mobility.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; routing protocols; telecommunication network routing; ECBRP; RPGM; RRGM; ad hoc routing protocols; entity mobility models; flat routing; group mobility models; hierarchical routing; mobile nodes; random waypoint; Communications Society; Delay; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Routing protocols; Space technology; Telecommunication traffic; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. WCNC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2947-9

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917894

Filename

4917894