Performance Evaluation of Energy Consumption of Reactive Protocols under Self- Similar Traffic
Dhiraj Nitnaware, Ajay Kumar Verma · 2010
MANET (Mobile Adhoc Network) is an infrastructureless multi-hop wireless network where development of energy efficient protocols is of current research interests because of limitation of bandwidth and battery life. Many authors have developed number of such protocols and analyzed them under Constant Bit Rate (CBR) traffic [1]. In the present communication we have presented the energy consumption of existing reactive routing protocols namely DSR and AODV under Self-Similar traffic (Pareto and Exponential) in comparison with CBR. Simulation and computation of energy consumption was done with ns-2 simulator (2.31 Version) with following parameter variation: (i) Mobility pattern (ii) Traffic pattern (iii) Area Shape (iv) Sending Rate and (v) number of nodes. Result and conclusion compares the behavior of two protocols in terms of energy consumption under self-similar traffic.