Comparison of Stable Path Selection Strategies for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Meghanathan, N.
Networking, International Conference on Systems and International Conference on Mobile Communications and Learning Technologies, 2006. ICN/ICONS/MCL 2006. International Conference on
Volume , Issue , 23-29 April 2006 Page(s): 67 - 67
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICNICONSMCL.2006.65
Summary: The strategies for selecting paths in stabilityoriented mobile ad hoc network routing protocols make use of the knowledge of either past or future topology changes. Here, we study the performance of different stable path selection strategies in terms of number of route transitions and average hop count per path vis-à-vis the optimums for these metrics computed under the same conditions of network topology changes. The strategies that make use of knowledge of past topology changes include that of selecting the most recently formed path, the longest existing path, and the path having least sum of the age of its constituent links. The strategies making use of the knowledge of future topology changes include the mobility prediction mechanism [8] and the locationupdate broadcast based look-ahead mechanism [7]. Simulation results indicate strategies based on knowledge of future topology changes perform far better compared to those based on knowledge of past topology changes.
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