Analysis of different mobility models for ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol and dynamic source routing protocol

Abstract

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a network consisting of a set of mobile nodes that are connected by wireless links, communicating with each other without any centralized control or established infrastructure. Since mobility patterns may play a significant role in determining the protocol performance, it is desirable for mobility models to emulate the movement pattern of targeted real life applications in a reasonable way. Otherwise, the observations made and the conclusions drawn from the simulation studies may be misleading. Thus, it is necessary to study the performance of these mobility models. These models represent the movement of the mobile nodes, changes in their location, velocity and acceleration over time. In this paper, we study different mobility models and their performance over Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol(AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing(DSR) routing protocols. There is an attempt to provide an overview of the performance of various mobility models based on different parameters including throughput, packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and jitter and routing load. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media.