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.