# Investigating the Impact of Partial Topology in Proactive MANET Routing Protocols

1 HIPERCOM - High performance communication
Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11, Inria Saclay - Ile de France, X - École polytechnique, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR
Abstract : In this paper, we study the impact of using partial versus full topology in the OLSR routing protocol for MANETs. The core of OLSR is the notion of MultiPoint Relays (MPRs), serving the purpose of reducing the amount of link-state information, flooded to nodes in the network, as well as reducing the redundancy in the flooding process. The OLSR protocol specification contains a tunable parameter, MPR coverage, which adjusts the degree of redundancy in both the advertised link-state information, and the links over which the link-state information is advertised. We investigate the impact from assigning various values to this parameter. We further investigate two options for advertising additional link-state information: the MPR full link-state'' option implies that whenever a node is selected to declare any link-state information, it declares all its local link state information. The full link-state'' option states, that all nodes must declare all their local link-state information. Through simulations, we investigate the performance characteristics of OLSR with and without these options.
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Thomas Clausen, Philippe Jacquet, Laurent Viennot. Investigating the Impact of Partial Topology in Proactive MANET Routing Protocols. The 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Oct 2002, Honolulu, United States. ⟨10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088405⟩. ⟨inria-00471706⟩

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