Although there have been a number of performance studies of proactive mobile ad hoc network (MANET) routing protocols, little attention has been paid to the impacts of topology update strategies on routing performance. This paper presents an analysis of several topology update strategies for a proactive MANET routing protocol. The goal of this paper is to better understand how topology update s...

This paper proposes a service discovery protocol for discovering and advertising services in a proactive ad hoc network. The protocol we have defined is piggybacked into the OLSR protocol. We define a new message type into OLSR called Service Discovery Message (SDM) for both advertisement and discovery of services. The advertisement frequency and advertisement lifetime are user-controlled param...

In an ad-hoc network, all communication is done over wireless media, without the help of wired base stations. While many routing protocols have been developed to find and maintain routes based on a best-effort service model, quality-of-service (QoS) routing in an ad-hoc network is difficult because the network topology may change constantly and the available state information for routing is inh...

In this paper, we propose a new Quality Link Metric (QLM), “Inverse Expected Transmission Count (InvETX)” in Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. Then we compare performance of three existing QLMs which are based on loss probability measurements; Expected Transmission Count (ETX), Minimum Delay (MD), Minimum Loss (ML) in Static Wireless Multi-hop Networks (SWMhNs). A novel contribution...

The methods of ordinary least-squares regression (OLSR), fuzzy regression (FR), and adaptive network fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) are compared in inferring operating rules for a reservoir operations problem. Dynamic programming (DP) is used to provide the input-output data set to be used by OLSR, FR, and ANFIS models. The coefficients of an FR model are found by solving a linear programming (...

In mobile ad hoc networks, the absence ofinfrastructure and the consequent absence of authorizationfacilities impede the usual practice of establishing a practicalcriterion to distinguishing nodes as trusted and distrusted.Since all nodes in the MANETs would be used as router inmulti-hop applications, secure routing protocols have vital rulein the security of the network. So evaluating the perf...

The trust is always present implicitly in the protocols based on cooperation, in particular, between the entities involved in routing operations in Ad hoc networks. Indeed, as the wireless range of such nodes is limited, the nodes mutually cooperate with their neighbors in order to extend the remote nodes and the entire network. In our work, we are interested by trust as security solution for O...

-Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are the set of wireless nodes that can communicate with each other and forwarding each other’s packets. WMNs are multi-hop networks consisting of routers, gateways and mobile nodes, they aim at guarantee connectivity. They act as a key technology for next generation WMNs due to their low cost and relative ease of deployment they are an attractive paradigm and are ...

Service discovery is one of the most fundamental building blocks of self-organization. While mature approaches exist in the realm of fixed networks, they are not directly applicable in the context of MANETs. We investigate and compare two different protocols as basis for service discovery, namely OLSR and WCPD. OLSR is a proactive routing protocol while WCPD is a path discovery protocol integra...

In this paper, the performance of routing protocols DSDV, OLSR and AODV using performance metrics like Packet Delivery Ratio, Average End to End delay, Packet Loss Ratio and Average Throughput within Vehicular ad hoc networks for CBR applications over UDP connection has been analyzed. Network Simulator (NS-3.19) along with mobility model generated through Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) too...