Impact of topology control and traffic models performance on Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless routing protocol

In this paper, we describe a simulation study of the impact of topology control and traffic models on the performance of Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Network routing protocol in a dynamic changing environment. Simulation results shows that Constant Bit Rate (CBR) outperformed Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in all metrics chosen, except for TCP which was able to handle packet delivery in large topologies than CBR, but at the cost of increase in overall delay in the network. From the simulation results it is concluded that, the increase in spurious packet drops in TCP is due to its slow start which invoke its congestion control algorithm.