Radio interferences and low capacity resources in ad-hoc wireless networks make more complex the quality of service (QoS)
support. We propose a solution taking into account radio interferences in mobile ad-hoc networks routing and providing an
optimized flooding based on multipoint relays. This solution is based on a modified version of the OLSR routing protocol that
considers bandwidth requests and interferences in route selection while providing a very efficient flooding. A comparative
performance evaluation based on NS simulations shows that despite the overhead due to QoS support, this solution outperforms
classical OLSR in terms of maximum number of acceptable flows, bandwidth amount granted to a flow and route stability. Moreover,
the efficiency of the optimized flooding is equal to that provided by the native version of OLSR.
Keywords Interference - quality of service - optimized flooding - QoS routing - OLSR - multipoint relay (MPR)
This study has been funded by DGA/CELAR (French Ministry of Defence), in MANET project. Technical point of contact: thierry.plesse@dga.defense.gouv.fr