Setting Up Static Components for Investigating MANET Performance: A Simulation Case

MANETs are temporary networks, that spend less time to be deployed and less resources to keep up and running. MANETs can be implemented in disaster recovery sites, university campuses, military campaigns and so on. MANET nodes cooperate in an autonomous way by forwarding packets to each-other. Considering mobility of the terminals, the routes change dynamically so routing algorithms are very important for operation of MANETs. At a given time, not all the nodes can be mobile. Users can do some work, while sitting somewhere or stop for a rest. We can also consider a grid of static nodes, which will also support the mobile nodes. In this paper, we analyze the performance of a MANET considering different number of static nodes in the network. For the moving nodes we use Random Waypoint Mobility (RWM) model. We evaluate the performance by measuring the number of hops and throughput for one-flow traffic. For all scenarios, the average throughput is around 5 times lower than CBR of sent data. The number of hops is higher and has more oscillations for denser networks.