In this paper, we describe the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) [19],[20], a proactive routing protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs). We evaluate its performance through exhaustive simulations using the Network Simulator 2 (ns2) [1], and compare with other ad-hoc protocols, specifically the Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) [4] routing protocol and the Dynamic Source Ro...

OBJECTIVE Although relief from suffering is essential in healthcare and palliative care, few efforts have aimed at defining, operationalizing, and developing standards for its detection, assessment, and relief. In order to accurately explore and identify factors that contribute to suffering, more attention needs to be focused on quality assessment and measurement, not only for assessment purpos...

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-free networks of mobile nodes that communicate with each other wirelessly. There are several routing schemes that have been proposed and several of these have been already extensively simulated or implemented as well. The primary applications of such networks have been in disaster relief operations, military use, conferencing and environment se...

Opportunistic data forwarding has drawn much attention in the research community of multihop wireless networking, with most research conducted for stationary wireless networks. One of the reasons why opportunistic data forwarding has not been widely utilized in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is the lack of an efficient lightweight proactive routing scheme with strong source routing capability....

This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...

in this research, performance of pattern search algorithm (ps) was investigated in order to optimize the nonlinear muskingum model parameters in contrast with the general algorithms, for wilson and karoun floods routing. wilson flood routing has been chosen to compare the ability of ps algorithm with other algorithms and, karoun flood routing has been chosen for a better evaluation of ps. the r...

In this paper we evaluated one of the commonly used proactive protocol–Ad hoc on demand distance vector. This paper proposes an improved assessment about the AODV protocol over different terrain condition like attitude above & below sea level etc. Here in the paper the performance of AODV protocol is judged on the basis of different layer’s performance of network model like Application, MAC, Tr...