Reliability Evaluation of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: With and without Interference
Ch. Venkateswara Rao, N. Padmavathy, Sanjay Kumar Chaturvedi · 2017
Mobile ad hoc network is a dynamic wireless communication network which are vulnerable in reliability because of the topology configuration, infrastructureless characteristics, limited bandwidth and interference. The existence of interference in ad hoc networks has a significant impact on the whole network performance. The link existence in ad hoc networks is intensely related to interference, which means that the creation and the deletion of links are affected because of interference. Most of the researchers of the previous decade have failed to consider and address the effect of interference on reliability evaluation of ad hoc networks. Hence, this work proposes a methodology to calculate the network reliability of mobile ad hoc network considering with and without the effect of interference. In this paper, the results clearly show that the network performance degrades when the interference is high. To improve the ad hoc network performance, it is therefore necessary by the design engineer to take precautionary steps in deploying the network with an optimum network size influenced by considerable amount of interference without any loss of information.