@article{810,
  keywords = {Babel, BMX6, mesh routing, OSLR, wireless community networks},
  author = {Axel Neumann and Ester López and Leandro Navarro},
  title = {Evaluation of mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks},
  abstract = {Abstract In recent years, we have witnessed the exponential growth of wireless community networks as a response to the clear necessity of Internet access for participation in society. For wireless mesh networks that can scale up to thousands of nodes, which are owned and managed in a decentralized way, it is imperative for their survival to provide the network with self-management mechanisms that reduce the requirements of human intervention and technological knowledge in the operation of a community network. In this paper, we focus on one important self-management mechanism, routing, and we study the scalability, performance, and stability of three proactive mesh routing protocols: BMX6, OLSR, and Babel. We study different metrics on an emulation framework and on the W-ILab.T testbed at iMinds, making the most of the two worlds. Emulation allows us to have more control over the topology and more systematically repeat the experiments, whereas a testbed provides a realistic wireless medium and more reliable measurements, especially in terms of interference and CPU consumption. Results show the relative merits, costs, and limitations of the three protocols.},
  year = {2015},
  journal = {Computer Networks},
  pages = {-},
  issn = {1389-1286},
  url = {http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/eomrpfwcn.pdf},
  doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.07.018},
}