An Implementation and Evaluation of Zone-Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

In Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET), the nodes intercommunicate through single-hop and multi-hop paths in a peer-to-peer fashion. Intermediate nodes between two pairs of communication nodes act as routers. Thus, the routing protocols play an important role for construction of MANET. Though the research of the routing protocol for MANET is actively done, most performance evaluations are evaluated via simulation. In this research, we implemented the zone-based routing protocol called ZRP and EZRP to real machines and evaluated by real environment. In the evaluation results, we showed that EZRP which is our proposed protocol has better performance than ZRP.