Traffic load-based analysis of MBQA-OLSR routing protocol in wireless ad hoc networks

Waheb A. Jabbar, Mahamod Ismail, Rosdiadee Nordin, Roshahliza M. Ramli

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    Abstract

    In wireless Ad hoc networks, congestion occurs frequently at intermediate nodes when forwarding data packets between source-destination pairs. This traffic incurs higher packet loss, longer transmission delay, and faster energy resources depletion, thus degrades the performance of the network. This paper analyzes the performance of our hybrid Multipath Battery and Queue-Aware OLSR routing protocol (MBQA-OLSR), which is an adaptation of MP-OLSRv2, for congestion avoidance, load balancing and energy-efficient routing in wireless ad hoc networks. The MBQA-OLSR considers multiple metrics, namely, residual energy, node's lifetime, node's idle time, and length of traffic queue for route computation and also selects Multipoint Relays (MPR) using an enhanced mechanism, Energy-Aware MPR (EA-MPR), thereby prolonging network lifetime, reducing the overhead involved and improving the QoS while maintaining connectivity of the network. The proposed scheme avoids the selection of congested and low battery level nodes for forwarding data packets and/or flooding topological information. The performance characteristics of the MBQA-OLSR protocol are evaluated through simulations by comparing it to the conventional routing protocols, namely the: MP-OLSRv2 and MPQ-OLSRv2. It emerges that MBQA-OLSR performs well under various traffic load scenarios and it significantly improves QoS metrics, reduces energy cost per packet, and extends the network lifetime.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages2677-2682
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509011339
    ISBN (Print)9781509011339
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 19 Dec 2017
    Event2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, TENCON 2017 - Penang, Malaysia
    Duration: 5 Nov 20178 Nov 2017

    Publication series

    NameIEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON
    Volume2017-December
    ISSN (Print)2159-3442
    ISSN (Electronic)2159-3450

    Conference

    Conference2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, TENCON 2017
    Country/TerritoryMalaysia
    CityPenang
    Period5/11/178/11/17

    Funding

    ACKNOWLEDGMENT The research was supported by Universiti Malaysia Pahang (www.ump.edu.my), Malaysia, under the grant scheme No. RDU170309. The research was supported by Universiti Malaysia Pahang (www.ump.edu.my), Malaysia, under the grant scheme No. RDU170309.

    FundersFunder number
    Universiti Malaysia PahangRDU170309

      Keywords

      • Ad hoc Networks
      • EA-MPR
      • Energy-Efficient
      • MBQA-OLSR
      • MCNR
      • MP-OLSRv2

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