Performance study and simulation of an anycast protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks

This paper conducts a detailed simulation study of stateless anycast routing in a mobile wireless ad hoc network. The model covers all the fundamental aspects of such networks with a routing mechanism using a scheme of orientation-dependent inter-node communication links. The simulation system Winsim is used which explicitly represents parallelism of events and processes in the network. The purpose of these simulations is to investigate the effect of node s maximum speed, and different TTL over the network performance under two different scenarios. Simulation study investigates five practically important performance metrics of a wireless mobile ad hoc network and shows the dependence of this metrics on the transmission radius, link availability, and maximal possible node speed.