On Scenarios to Evaluate Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Routing Protocols

A mobile ad hoc network ({\em MANET}) is a mobile, wireless network, that does not require any preexisting infrastructure and thus needs to establish a distributed routing infrastructure in a self-organized way. A lot of routing protocols for MANETs have been proposed, and also some evaluating work has been done. A key characteristic of evaluations is the scenario in which the protocol is used. Scenarios used in evaluations have a great impact on the results, so it is very important to choose these scenarios carefully, such that results are usable for further development and possible real deployments of such networks. This report discusses how scenarios are used so far to evaluate {\em MANET}s, and further suggests how to improve scenarios, to get more realistic and more applicable results.     «

A mobile ad hoc network ({\em MANET}) is a mobile, wireless network, that does not require any preexisting infrastructure and thus needs to establish a distributed routing infrastructure in a self-organized way. A lot of routing protocols for MANETs have been proposed, and also some evaluating work has been done. A key characteristic of evaluations is the scenario in which the protocol is used. Scenarios used in evaluations have a great impact on the results, so it is very important to choose th...     »