Scalability of the OLSR protocol with the Fish Eye extension

Dang Quan Nguyen (1) , Pascale Minet (1)

1 HIPERCOM - High performance communication

Multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks are drawing more and more attention from both academic and industrial research. The lack of infrastructure makes those networks easy to deploy, thus they can potentially include a large number of nodes. Consequently, the scalability issue of the routing protocolused in such networks should be addressed. In large ad-hoc networks, with thousands of nodes and highly dense configurations, a simulation can take a long time to complete when using simulators like NS-2. In this paper, we propose a simple analytic model to study the scalability of the OLSR routing protocol. We focus on the protocol overhead and show that OLSR with the Fish-Eye extension can suppport large and dense networks. Our results show a good accuracy as compared with NS-2 simulations.

Domaines: Informatique mobile; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Dang Quan Nguyen, Pascale Minet. Scalability of the OLSR protocol with the Fish Eye extension. 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking - ICN 2007, Apr 2007, Sainte-Luce, Martinique, France. ⟨inria-00128793⟩