Affiliations: [a] Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan | [b] Department of Information and Computer Engineering, Okayama University of Science (OUS), Japan | [c] Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan. E-mail: barolli@fit.ac.jp | [d] Department of Information Technology, Aleksander Moisiu University of Durres, L.1, Rruga e Currilave, Durres, Albania
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Leonard Barolli, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan. E-mail: barolli@fit.ac.jp.
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 the 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.
Keywords: Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Wireless Mesh Networks, NS-3, network architecture, OLSR, SGC, NCMC, normal distribution
