Title: Performance evaluation of selective-border-casting zone routing protocol for ad-hoc networks

Authors: Leonard Barolli, Akio Koyama, Yoshitaka Honma, Arjan Durresi, Junpei Arai

Addresses: Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan. ' Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa 992-8510, Japan. ' IT-Lab corporation, 1-808-18 Arcadia, Yonezawa 992-0119, Yamagata, Japan. ' Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. ' Department of Information and Control Engineering, Yamagata College of Industry and Technology, 2-2-1 Matsuei, Yamagata 990-2473, Japan

Abstract: A lot of research is going on in ad-hoc networks and many routing protocols have been proposed. But, their performance depends on network scale and topology change. One well-known routing protocol for ad-hoc networks is the Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP), which has better performance than other protocols. However, many useless control packets are sent in the network. In this paper, we propose a Selective Bordercasting Zone Routing Protocol (SBZRP) to reduce the network load by limiting the number of control packets when the protocol searches for a new route. The performance evaluation shows that SBZRP has a good behaviour and better performance than ZRP.

Keywords: ad-hoc networks; routing protocols; selective border-casting; network protocols; performance evaluation; zone routing protocol; network load; control packets.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2009.029351

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2009 Vol.3 No.4, pp.312 - 319

Published online: 22 Nov 2009 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article