The plane structure of network is simple, no need to
maintain any structure. The general existence of multiple
paths between the source and the destination station,
multiple paths can be used to achieve load sharing, it also
can choose the appropriate path for different types of traffic.
All points are equal in network, and the bottleneck does not
exist in principle, so it is more robust. Coverage of nodes is
relatively small and relatively safe in the planar structure.
The biggest drawback is the limited scale planar structure
network. In the plane structure, each node needs to know to
all the other nodes in the routing. Due to the mobility of
nodes, the routing information to the large number of
control messages to maintain these dynamic changes.
Network scale is the larger, so the route maintenance
overhead is also the greater.When the network size increases
to a certain extent, all of the bandwidth may be routing
protocol consumed. So the plane structure network
scalability.