Performance Evaluation of AODV, OLSR and HWMP Protocols in Ad-Hoc Networks and MANET Scenarios

Ad-Hoc Networks, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs), Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are attracting a lot of attention from wireless network researchers, because of their potential use in several fields such as collaborative computing and communications. Considering mobility of the terminals, routing is a key process for operation of WMNs. In this paper, we present the implementation of a simulation system for these networks. We analyze the performance of AODV, OLSR and HWMP protocols considering static and mobile node scenarios. For evaluation we considered throughput, delay and remaining energy metrics. The simulation results show that for both scenarios, the AODV protocol performs better than other protocols. The delay of AODV in static scenario is lower than other protocols. However, the delay of HWMP is better than other protocols in mobile scenario. For all routing protocols, the remaining energy of mobile scenario is higher than static scenario.