Performance Evaluation of BATMAN-Adv Wireless Mesh Network Routing Algorithms

This paper describes our performance evaluation results of BATMAN-adv wireless mesh network routing algorithms, particularly its new variant, version V. The BATMAN protocol has developed continuously after its initial release and now several variants are available, especially the transmission quality based BATMAN-adv version IV and the throughput based version V. The version IV has deployed and tested in many publications. However, the version V has not been verified in literature. We here design several test cases to compare the performance between version IV and V and the results are presented. It shows that the version V does not outperform the version IV in terms of delay, pack loss and throughput. It is suggested that the adjustable parameters of the version V should be studied carefully in the future.