An Automated Real-Time Performance Measurement and Visualization Framework for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

摘要

The performance of mobile wireless system is extremely susceptible to various parameters like mobility, dynamicity of the environment, nodes distribution, variable available bandwidth etc. Under highly unpredictable wireless environment, real time performance information holds a great significance that cannot be reflected by the conventional post evaluation approach. The paper presents a new real time performance evaluation tool capable of detecting and monitoring traffic flows in MANET. The system provides network operators with useful information including the metrics and statistics instantly as well as ability to enter the network protocol parameters and observe the impacts in real-time. Moreover, simplified GUI with real time visualization, network performance summarization along with run time triggering of sudden change in the network has been introduced to provide user with easier, user-friendly and comprehensible perception on the run time network performance. The system considers the well known protocol, OLSR as the study protocol that can further extended for multiple protocols in the future.