The simulation model evaluation objective is twofold. On the one hand, a simulation with NS-2 was performed aiming at obtaining delay and ETX values for each edge (or link) in the network. Besides that, simulations with DSR and HTLC-MeDSR were also performed, and the total delay and ETX values of the paths used by the algorithms were obtained, as will be explained in Section 6. On the other hand, the proposed SPEA was evaluated.