Am Freitag 06 November 2009 20:05:31 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek:
I've just come upon an interesting paper that experimentally compares the performance of OLSR, BATMAN and Babel.
Real-world Performance of Current Proactive Multi-hop Mesh Protocols. M. Abolhasan, B. Hagelstein, J. C.-P. Wang.http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1747&context=infopapers
Interesting link Juliusz, thank you.
Short summary: see Table II on the last page.
A few comments on the paper:
Section II (the informal description of the protocols) doesn't make much sense. Ignore it.
They evaluated original OLSR, not OLSR-ETX as used by our friends in Vienna and Berlin.
This is the bane of the OLSR protocol. Most people not doing mesh-research just "use the RFC compatible OLSR" to compare it with anything else... and discover (as we all know) that hopcount metric does not work. I'm fighting for including a simple ETX implementation into the coming OLSRv2 RFC at the moment.
Henning Rogge