Advantages
The network establishes pretty good routes in real time, and substantially reduces the number and size of messages sent to keep the network connected, compared to many other protocols. Many of the simpler mesh routing protocols just flood the whole network with routing information whenever a link changes.
The actual algorithm is quite simple.
The routing information and the data transfer are decentralized, and should therefore have good reliability and performance with no local hot spots.
The system requires capable nodes with large amounts of memory to maintain routing tables. Fortunately, these are becoming less expensive all the time.
The system gives a very quick, relatively accurate guess about whether a node is in the network, because complete, though out-of-date routing information is present in every node. However, this is not the same as knowing whether a node is in the network. This guess may be adequate for most tariff network use, like telephony, but it may not be adequate for safety-related military or avionics.
HSLS has good scalability properties. The asymptotic scalability of its total overhead is compared to standard link state which scales as, where N is the number of nodes in the network.
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