A simulation study of impact of low and high mobility on MANET routing protocols
B. Ravi, Kiran Kumari Patil, Udaya Kumar K. Shenoy, B. Ashutosh Holla · 2017
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are dynamic, multi-hop networks with wireless mobile nodes that exchange data without using any centralized entity. Typically, nodes in a MANET have uncontrolled mobility, communicate using shared wireless channel and operate on battery power. Due to its dynamic nature and distributed cooperation, routing overhead in MANET is of great concern for any application. Several well-known protocols exist in literature for handling routing between nodes in the mobile environment. Node mobility can have a considerable impact on the performance of these protocols. The performance can also vary because of mobility model that describes the movement patterns of the nodes. In this paper, we study and analyze the impact of mobility on some of the well-known MANET routing protocols. Our purpose is to investigate the behavior of MANET routing protocols under different mobility environment.