A practical evaluation for routing performance of BATMAN-ADV and HWMN in a Wireless Mesh Network test-bed

Abstract

Over the past few years, connections between the end devices or stations have been increasingly wireless. In 1997, 802.11 subcommittee had first approved its Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standard. Since then, many wireless networking standards have taken extra efforts in developing mesh architectures in which data is forwarded between multiple wireless hops to reach the desired destination. The main advantage of Wireless Mesh Network over the traditional WLAN is the fact that Wireless Mesh Networks are easy to deploy, flexible, have capability of self-forming, self-healing, and self-organization. In this Project, an implementation and development of wireless mesh network test bed is carried out on the layer 2 routing using Better Approach to Mobile Adhoc Network-advanced (BATMAN-adv) and Hybrid Wireless Mesh Network (HWMN) protocols. The main reason for the use of layer 2 protocol over layer 3 is the less processing overhead that helps in maximizing the throughput. Also, a protocol that runs on layer 2 is capable of supporting any protocol above layer 2. The major aspects of this project will cover setting up a real time wireless mesh test bed and performance analysis of BATMAN-adv and HWMN and their comparisons.