Routing techniques for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Classification and Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis

摘要

Routing is a core problem in networks for delivering data from one node to another. Wireless Ad Hoc networks are also called Mobile Ad Hoc multihop wireless networks without predetermined topology or central control. In this paper I present a number of ways of classification or categorization of these routing protocols and did Qualitative/Quantitative analysis of a dozen typical existing routing protocols. In qualitative analysis I compare their properties according to different criteria and in Quantitative analysis I used a Simulator QualNet to study their relative performance according to different criteria.