Evaluation of the INSIGNIA Signaling System

We present an evaluation of the INSIGNIA signaling system that supports quality of service in mobile ad hoc networks. INSIGNIA is based on an in-band signaling and soft-state resource management paradigm that is well suited to supporting mobility with end-to-end quality of service in highly dynamic environments where the network topology, node connectivity and radio channel conditions are time-varying. We evaluate the performance of the signaling system and show the benefit of our scheme under diverse mobility, traffic and channel conditions.