An experimental evaluation of the RT-WMP routing protocol in an indoor environment

Abstract

The RT-WMP routing protocol allows a user to determine which data streams ought to have a higher priority for transmission over a wireless mobile ad-hoc network. This paper provides a benchmark of the RT-WMP protocol in a typical indoor environment. The benchmarking results will reveal that the RT-WMP protocol is able to handle multiple data streams well over moderate distances of up to 10m. Above this distance, with a scarcer bandwidth, the protocol is still able to allow continued transmission of at least one data stream, which may not necessarily be the data stream with the highest priority. The results will lay the base for the development of a resource allocation strategy that allows for continued data transmission of all data streams, and not just the data stream with the highest priority only.