Is Mobility Always Harmful to Routing Protocol Performance of MANETs

Author

Hu, Xi ; Wang, J.K. ; Wang, C.R. ; Wang, Cong

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

112

Abstract

Mobility is a prominent characteristic of MANETs, and is the main factor affecting topology change and route invalidation, which finally leads to increase the design difficulty of effective routing protocol. In this paper, we have studied the impacts of mobility on routing protocol performance of MANETs with simulation, which uses ns-2 as the simulation tool, 802.11 as the wireless MAC protocol and AODV as the routing protocol. The results show that the increase of mobility does not reduce the routing protocol performance distinctly. In some circumstances, it even increases the routing protocol performance. The works of this paper can be a basis of other studies of MANETs.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; telecommunication network topology; AODV routing protocol; MANET; mobile ad hoc networks; ns-2 simulation; route invalidation; topology change; wireless MAC protocol; MANETs; mobility; routing protocol performance; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Huangshan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8434-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4235-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CyberC.2010.28

Filename

5615673