Modeling and Simulation Ttools for Mobile Ad Hoc Nnetworks

Abstract

A model is a simplified representation of a system that aids the understanding and investigation of the real system. Simulation is the manipulation of the model of a system that enables one to observe the behavior of the system in a setting similar to real life. Ad hoc networks are a key to the evolution of wireless networks. MANETs are nonfixed infrastructure networks that consist of dynamic collection of nodes with rapidly changing topologies of wireless links. Although military tactical communication is still considered the primary application for ad hoc networks, commercial interest in these types of networks continues to grow. Interference is one of the major challenges in wireless networks and thereby in MANETs. It alters or disrupts the message as it transmits along a channel between the source and the destination.