Study Of Routing Protocol Based On MIMO Technology In Ad Hoc Networks

Routing technology performs an important role in Ad Hoc networks, and MIMO(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) technology is a hot research spot nowadays, with itsmultiplexing and diversity strategy which have a great advantage compared with thetraditional SISO links, so how to introduce this to routing protocol design in Ad Hocnetworks in order to achieve better performance would be most of the work in this paper.On the study of both the diversity and multiplexing gains and Ad Hoc traditionalRouting Protocol, a Double Zone Routing (DZR) protocol is presented. By using theDZR protocol, every node in the network can divide the whole network into doublezones. A Table-Driven routing strategy is used in the inner zone, and an On-demandrouting strategy is carried on in the outer zone. Moreover, a Fisheye Technology is usedto improve the Table-Driven routing strategy. DZR protocol can do a great contributionon improving aggregate throughput and end-to-end delay performances. Through thesimulations implemented in terms of business load, node density and mobility inOPNET environment, the synthetically performing advantages of DZR protocol aretestified through the result analysis, by comparing with the MIMO Routing (MIR)protocol and the traditional ZRP routing protocol whose link strategy is changed amongdiversity, multiplexing and SISO. Finally, the DZR protocol is developed with C++language, and its performance is tested in the MIMO-Test-Platform, which simulate thereal environment in MIMO channels.