MANET Performance for Source and Destination Moving Scenarios Considering OLSR and AODV protocols

• Main Authors: Elis Kulla, Masahiro Hiyama, Makoto Ikeda, Leonard Barolli, Vladi Kolici, Rozeta Miho
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
• Series: Mobile Information Systems
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/MIS-2010-0106

Recently, a great interest is shown in MANETs potential usage and applications in several fields such as military activities, rescue operations and time-critical applications. In this work, we implement and analyse a MANET testbed considering AODV and OLSR protocols for wireless multi-hop networking. We investigate the effect of mobility and topology changing in MANET and evaluate the performance of the network through experiments in a real environment. The performance assessment of our testbed is done considering throughput, number of dropped packets and delay. We designed four scenarios: Static, Source Moving, Destination Moving and Source-Destination Moving. From our experimental results, we concluded that when the communicating nodes are moving and the routes change quickly, OLSR (as a proactive protocol) performs better than AODV, which is a reactive protocol.