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Scenario: paper-base

Class: sparse / mobile

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Provenance — regenerated on every merge. Unlike the sweep pages, this table is not pinned to a release: benchmarks.yml re-runs the discrete taxonomy on every merge to the default branch and rewrites the generated block below, so these numbers track the current tip of main and already include the pheromone-weighting change (#327) and the per-seed RNG stream assignment (#352). They are a per-merge regression signal at the 10-run publication floor (#318); the release-pinned, 20-seed numbers live on the sweep and headline pages. See Provenance and #365.

What it stresses

The paper's base scenario (AntHocNet's design regime). It is also the Broch/Perkins 1500×300 m / 50-node field, which makes it the calibration target of the validation anchors — AODV is known from the literature to deliver ~90–100% there at low mobility.

Configuration

nodes area long edge (m) max speed (m/s) pause (s) flows propagation
50 1500 20 30 20 range

Defined as DISCRETE["paper-base"] in ns3/tools/run-scenarios.py (scenario=paper: 50 nodes, 1500×300 m, random-waypoint 20 m/s / 30 s pause, 20 CBR sources of one 64-byte packet/s, 300 m range, 2 Mbit/s, 802.11 DCF). The per-merge benchmarks workflow runs the taxonomy with --quick.

Results

Caveat — large-scale and heavy-load currently reflect an open defect. #173 (P1, open): with enableMultipath on, reactive forward ants are bounded neither by a broadcast budget nor by (src,seq) duplicate suppression, so route discovery floods combinatorially in dense graphs. Read those two rows as a bug report, not as protocol character. See docs/fidelity.md.

Mean of 10 run(s), every baseline on identical realisations; ± is the 95% CI half-width (#293). Generated by run-scenarios.py.

Measured at 1a7c32b, run.

protocol PDR % ±95 mean delay (ms) ±95 99th delay (ms) ±95 throughput (kbps) NRL ±95 jitter (ms) dOff90 (ms)
anthocnet 85.3 ± 1.4 60.6 ± 7.9 1098.5 ± 124.4 4.56 44.054 ± 2.72 92.14 inf
aodv 79.0 ± 2.5 63.6 ± 6.6 1105.9 ± 68.3 4.22 59.823 ± 4.03 97.22 inf
olsr 76.1 ± 3.3 16.5 ± 4.2 467.4 ± 335.1 3.85 6.331 ± 0.37 24.96 inf
dsdv 67.2 ± 2.3 34.8 ± 21.0 994.2 ± 603.1 3.59 35.121 ± 2.32 44.07 inf