Overview

The OrderOne Networks routing protocol outperforms all alternative protocols in packet delivery ratio, control bandwidth and latency. This includes all IETF standard protocols as well as protocols such as OLSR, OSPFv3-MANET, AODV and DSDV.

Simulation and Real World Testing
Testing has been performed in six different network simulators including ns2, GTNetS and several vendor specific simulators. The OrderOne Networks protocol has outperformed all alternative protocols in these tests.

The protocol has also been tested at the Rutgers University WINLAB/ORBIT where it was able to organize 720 Atheros based Wifi Radios into a single mesh network. It required just 0.0062% of the available bandwidth on a per node basis during convergence and 1/10th of this bandwidth after convergence.

One vendor test simulated over 2,000 nodes each with a 9.6Kpbs radio in a large stationary network. The OrderOne Networks protocol was able to organize this network with each node sending 26 packets of not more than 150 bytes each. Using a 9.6Kpbs radio the network utilization never exceeded 5%.

Direct Comparisons

The OrderOne Networks protocol has been directly compared against a number of protocols including: AODV, DSDV, OLSR, DYMO, OSPFv3-MANET and several NDA protected vendor protocols. The OrderOne Networks protocol clearly outperformed all these protocols. Full comparisons with these protocols are coming soon.

OSPFv3-MANET (Open Shortest Path First v3 with MANET extensions)
This routing protocol is currently being pursued by the IETF working group responsible for adding MANET extensions to OSPF. In these tests the OrderOne Networks protocol required 8x - 20x less bandwidth to achieve the same performance as OSPF. When the OrderOne Networks protocol was allowed more bandwidth it was generally able to deliver 20% - 50% more packets.

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Dense Network Analysis

The OrderOne Networks protocol excels in dense networks. The following white paper illustrates the convergence time of the protocol with different packet and network sizes. Unlike alternative routing protocols, the OrderOne Networks routing protocol does not artificially ignore directly visible neighbors. If there are 250 direct neighbors, the OrderOne Networks protocol will connect to all of them. The protocol was tested with up to 250 nodes all in direct radio range of each other.

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Convergence Times

How fast a network converges is an important measure of its efficiency. The OrderOne Networks protocol was tested with network sizes from 100 to 900 nodes. The resultant convergence times are charted.

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