Mobility Effects in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Masahiro Hiyama, Makoto Ikeda, Leonard Barolli, Giuseppe De Marco, Fatos Xhafa, Arjan Durresi · 2009
In this paper, we present the implementation and analysis of our implemented testbed considering the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. We investigate the effect of mobility and topology changing in the throughput of a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). The mobile nodes move toward the destination at a regular speed. When the mobile nodes arrive at the corner, they stop for about three seconds. Experimental time is 150 seconds. In this work, we consider 6 models and we assess the performance of our testbed in terms of throughput, round trip time and packet loss. From our experiments, we found that the OLSR protocol has a good performance when the source node is moving. However, the performance is not good when the relay nodes are moving.