Performance Evaluation of AODV for Mobile Ad Hoc Network with Varying Network Size
Nilesh P. Bobade, Nitiket N. Mhala, Bapurao Deshmukh Coe · 2010
An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a network topology without the use of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration. Routing is the task of directing data packets from a source node to a given destination. The main method for evaluating the performance of MANETs is simulation. The Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol performs better than the table-driven protocol. This paper is subjected to the on demand routing protocol AODV and evaluated its performance. We investigated the performance metrics namely Packet Delivery Fraction (PDF) and Average end-to-end delay by varying network size through simulation using NS-2 network simulator. Also the performance is an interesting issue. Almost always the network protocols were simulated as a function of pause time (i.e. as a function of mobility), but not as a function of network size. The main interest of the paper is to test the ability of AODV routing protocol to react on network topology changes (for instance link breaks, node movement, and so on).