Evaluation of QoS support of AODV and its multicast extension for multimedia over MANETs

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have become the prominent set of wireless ad hoc networks with their distinctive characteristics, and ranging several fields of applications. In these networks, the nodes are mobile devices, changing their positions with time, resulting in dynamic topologies of the network. These dynamic environments make the routing of data packets from the source to the destination through multi hoping a difficult task. With the growing popularity of sophisticated mobile devices, the demand for multimedia traffic in such networks is also increasing. Henceforth, to ensure the quality of service (QoS) for multimedia traffic over MANETs has turn into further challenging. This paper focuses on the assessment of built-in QoS support of Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), and its multicast extension MAODV for multimedia traffic (a combination of audio and video) over the mobile ad hoc environment. The work is carried out to measure the achievable QoS metrics like packet delivery ratio, latency, and jitter.