Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:296041, abstract = {Routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks have traditionally focused on finding paths with minimum hop count. However, such paths can include slow or lossy links, leading to poor throughput. A routing algorithm can select better paths by explicitly taking the quality of the wireless links into account. In this paper, we conduct a detailed, empirical evaluation of the performance of three link-quality metrics---ETX, per-hop RTT, and per-hop packet pair---and compare them against minimum hop count. We study these metrics using a DSR-based routing protocol running in a wireless testbed. We find that the ETX metric has the best performance when all nodes are stationary. We also find that the per-hop RTT and per-hop packet-pair metrics perform poorly due to self-interference. Interestingly, the hop-count metric outperforms all of the link-quality metrics in a scenario where the sender is mobile.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Draves, Richard and Padhye, Jitendra and Zill, Brian}, booktitle = {SIGCOMM '04: Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications}, citeulike-article-id = {296041}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1015483}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1015467.1015483}, doi = {10.1145/1015467.1015483}, isbn = {1-58113-862-8}, keywords = {comparison, count, etx, hop, hop-count, hopcount, mesh, mesh-network, metrics, minimum, minimum-hopcount, multi-hop, multihop, multiple, network, per-hop, routing, routing-metrics, rtt, wireless, wireless-mesh, wireless-mesh-network, wireless-network, wmn}, location = {Portland, Oregon, USA}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {133--144}, posted-at = {2009-06-30 18:02:55}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1015467.1015483}, volume = {34}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:296041 L3 - citeulike-article-id:296041 N2 - Routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks have traditionally focused on finding paths with minimum hop count. However, such paths can include slow or lossy links, leading to poor throughput. A routing algorithm can select better paths by explicitly taking the quality of the wireless links into account. In this paper, we conduct a detailed, empirical evaluation of the performance of three link-quality metrics---ETX, per-hop RTT, and per-hop packet pair---and compare them against minimum hop count. We study these metrics using a DSR-based routing protocol running in a wireless testbed. We find that the ETX metric has the best performance when all nodes are stationary. We also find that the per-hop RTT and per-hop packet-pair metrics perform poorly due to self-interference. Interestingly, the hop-count metric outperforms all of the link-quality metrics in a scenario where the sender is mobile. CY - Portland, Oregon, USA IS - 4 SN - 1-58113-862-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 144 TI - Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks PB - ACM VL - 34 T2 - SIGCOMM '04: Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications SP - 133 KW - comparison KW - count KW - etx KW - hop KW - hop-count KW - hopcount KW - mesh KW - mesh-network KW - metrics KW - minimum KW - minimum-hopcount KW - multi-hop KW - multihop KW - multiple KW - network KW - per-hop KW - routing KW - routing-metrics KW - rtt KW - wireless KW - wireless-mesh KW - wireless-mesh-network KW - wireless-network KW - wmn AU - Draves, Richard AU - Padhye, Jitendra AU - Zill, Brian PY - 2004/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1015467.1015483 ER -