Performance analysis of two Wireless Mesh Network architectures by WMN-SA and WMN-TS simulation systems

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of two Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) architectures considering throughput, delay and fairness index metrics by Simulated Annealing (SA) and Tabu Search (TS) based simulation systems (called WMN-SA and WMN-TS). Then, we analyze the data by ns-3. We compare th e performance of two WMN architectures considering normal distribution and OLSR protocol. The simulation results show that for both simulation systems, the throughput of I/B WMN is a little bit higher than Hybrid WMN. For WMN-SA, the delay of I/B WMN is a little bit lower than Hybrid WMN. However, for WMN-TS the delay of Hybrid WMN is lower than I/B WMN. For both simulation systems, the fairness index of I/B WMN is a little bit higher than Hybrid WMN. For WMN-SA, the energy decreases sharply, because of the high density of nodes and high throughput, thus the nodes spend more energy.