Comparative study on the performance of TFRC over AODV and DSDV routing protocols

Abstract

Nowadays, many researches in Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) focus mainly on the impact of MANET routing protocol to TCP variants, but none have been done on TFRC. In this paper, we present a comprehensive simulation study on the behavior of TCP-friendly Rate Control (TFRC) protocol over Ad-Hoc On Demand Vector (AODV) routing protocol and Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV). The main objective is to measure the TFRC performance in terms of throughput, jitter and delay. In addition, this research also identifies whether or not MANET routing protocols have impact on TFRC. We conduct the experiment by sending multimedia streaming traffic carried by TFRC over AODV and DSDV respectively. Random-Waypoint mobility model is used for both experiments. Results obtained shows that TFRC has better throughput over DSDV. As for delay and jitter, TFRC over AODV has smoother results. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.