Johnson, DLysko, Albert A2007-11-142007-11-142007-09Johnson, D and Lysko, A.A. 2007. Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols. Southern African Telecommunications and Networks Conference, Mauritius, 9-13 September 2007, pp 6http://hdl.handle.net/10204/15742007: SATNACPredicting the performance of ad-hoc networking protocols has typically been performed by making use of software based simulation tools. Experimental study and validation of such predictions is vital to obtaining more realistic results, but may not be possible under the constrained environment of network simulators. This paper presents experimental comparisons of routing protocols using a 7 by 7 grid of closely spaced WiFi nodes. It firstly demonstrates the usefulness of the grid in its ability to emulate a real world multi-hop ad-hoc network. It specifically compares hop count, routing traffic overhead, throughput, delay and packet loss for three protocols which are listed by the IETF MANET working group. These are AODV, OLSR and DYMOenWireless grid test bedRouting protocolsNetworking protocolsSimulation toolsAd-hoc networksIEEE 802.11 standardConference PresentationJohnson, D., & Lysko, A. A. (2007). Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1574Johnson, D, and Albert A Lysko. "Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols." (2007): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1574Johnson D, Lysko AA, Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols; 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1574 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Johnson, D AU - Lysko, Albert A AB - Predicting the performance of ad-hoc networking protocols has typically been performed by making use of software based simulation tools. Experimental study and validation of such predictions is vital to obtaining more realistic results, but may not be possible under the constrained environment of network simulators. This paper presents experimental comparisons of routing protocols using a 7 by 7 grid of closely spaced WiFi nodes. It firstly demonstrates the usefulness of the grid in its ability to emulate a real world multi-hop ad-hoc network. It specifically compares hop count, routing traffic overhead, throughput, delay and packet loss for three protocols which are listed by the IETF MANET working group. These are AODV, OLSR and DYMO DA - 2007-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Wireless grid test bed KW - Routing protocols KW - Networking protocols KW - Simulation tools KW - Ad-hoc networks KW - IEEE 802.11 standard LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2007 T1 - Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols TI - Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1574 ER -