Evaluering af rutnings pålidelighed i mobile ad hoc netværk ved brug af topologi emulator
Student thesis: Master Thesis and HD Thesis
- Morten N. Jensen
- Anders Nickelsen
10. term, Elektronik og IT, Kandidatuddannelsen (Spec. Distribuerede Systemer) (Master Programme)
Performing experimental evaluation of wireless networking
is prone to large differences between experiments
as the non-deterministic nature of the environment may
influence the results differently between tests. This
fact has motivated the work described in this report,
which constitutes the development and deployment of
a topology emulation testbed for evaluation of routing
dependability in mobile ad hoc networks. The context
for routing evaluation is based on a use case where a
highly dependable video conferencing application is
used to provide medical assistance from a hospital to
an ambulance in motion. This scenario entails ad hoc
multi-hop routing from the ambulance to a gateway in the
ad hoc network.
The topology emulator imposes link properties of
wireless links onto wired links between end-nodes,
based on detailed loss and delays models incorporating
properties of WLAN 802.11a with OFDM physical layer
and statistical fading models for the channel. Functional
and performance requirements to the topology emulation
testbed have been derived and the testbed has been
implemented and verified towards these requirements.
A routing evaluation framework consisting of performance
and dependability requirements has been defined
based on the use case. Within this framework DSR and
OLSR, representing the reactive and proactive families of
ad hoc routing have been evaluated.
From the evaluation results it is concluded that the
reactive DSR is a better choice for ad hoc routing in
highly dynamic ad hoc scenarios, as the end-to-end
reliability of DSR surpasses that of OLSR. However,
more systematic evaluation of the influencing factors
from mobile environments must be performed, to further
substantiate this conclusion.
Language | English |
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Publication date | 2007 |
Number of pages | 152 |
Publishing institution | Institut for Elektroniske Systemer |