SELECTOR: An intelligent evaluation system for routing protocols in wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks

Many routing protocols have been proposed for Ad Hoc and sensor networks. Finding the best routing protocol without performance evaluation is not possible. Accurate performance evaluation and comparison of routing protocols needs a high quality simulator, precise configuration and high accuracy analysis method to interpret simulation results properly. Although there are a lot of advancements to design simulators, there is no salient study in the field of simulation results evaluation. To the best of our knowledge, there is not a method to evaluate routing protocols during the simulation and also compound results of some evaluation measurements together to get a unique result. In this paper we introduce an intelligence environment, named SELECTOR; for optimizing evaluation of routing protocols. SELECTOR simulates and also evaluates routing protocols during simulation procedure based on evaluation measurements by learning automata and finally based on the measurements and obtained results, it introduces the most optimum protocol.