Challenging Ad-Hoc Networks under Reliable & Unreliable Transport with Variable Node Density
Muazzam Ali Khan, Khalid Iqbal, Sikandar Hayat Khiyal · 2008
The main motivation of the research paper is to analyze different performance parameters of three well known Ad-hoc network routing protocols (AODV, DSDV, DSR) with varying node density and velocity. As in real world the movements of nodes are almost always random, therefore we selected the random way point mobility model. Ad hoc network is an active research area now-a-days. Plenty of literature is available in this field. The researcher has developed many Routing Algorithms for effective routing in MANETs. Similarly researchers also have analyzed these protocols in different scenarios. The Research area which needs more work & is still demanding the researcher attention is to work out efficiency of such networks in reliable ( suitable for delay tolerant and error sensitive data) & unreliable (for delay sensitive and error tolerant information such voice and video streaming) transport layer protocols. In this study we evaluate the behavior of different Ad –hoc network routing protocols (AODV, DSDV, DSR) under reliable TCP and unreliable UDP transport layer protocols with variable node density and velocity. From simulation results we observed that each protocol perform in a different way with different node density and velocity.