Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
ABSTRACT
For the last few years Mobile adhoc network is getting
publicity due to its versatile applications. There are many
factors that impact the performance evaluation of mobile
networks. A mobility model is one of the factors affecting
network in a very significant way. A mobility model dictates
the movement of the nodes within the network. This research
aims to study several mobility models that represent mobile
nodes whose movements are independent of each other (i.e.,
entity and group mobility models), and determine their
characteristics, weakness, and strengths. Offering more
insight into these models will help researcher deciding upon a
mobility model to use in the simulation. In order to illustrate
how the choice of the mobility models impact the
performance results of ad hoc protocols to be simulated, this
paper will perform a comparison between these models
considering several performance metrics like packet delivery
ratio, end-to-end delay and normalized routing load and
dropped packets.
2. RELATED WORK
There have been several works in the recent past that
simulated and evaluated performance comparisons of several
routing protocols and algorithms and most of these
assessments were based on random mobility models [1-3].
The main disadvantage is that they are not based on real life
scenarios. So, MANETs have not been used extensively used
despite having significant advantages over traditional
communication networks. In [4] authors provide a simulation
based performance evaluation and compare various reactive,
proactive and hybrid protocols based on Random waypoint
mobility models and compare the performance of three
routing protocols (AODV,OLSR, ZRP) using Qualnet 4.5.
Ashish et al. [5] presented performance evaluation of three
different routing protocols, i.e., Dynamic Source Routing
(DSR), Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and Fisheye
State Routing (FSR) in variable pause time using QualNet
Simulator based on Average end to end delay, Packet delivery
ratio, Throughput and Average Jitter. Sunil et al. [6] analyzed
the behavior of five MANETs routing protocols i.e. AODV,
DSDV, DSR, OLSR, TORA under the three mobility models
(RPGM, CMM, RWP) and then compare the performance of
protocols using NS-2 simulator in the area of 700 x 700 m2
which clearly indicate the significant impact on node mobility
pattern has on routing performance. Gupta et al [7] presented
simulation results that illustrate the importance of choosing a
mobility model in the simulation of an ad hoc network
protocol. They compared the performance of the Random
Waypoint Mobility Model, the Reference Point Group
Mobility (RPGM) model and Freeway Mobility Model tested
on AODV and DSDV routing protocols on the basis of
throughput.
Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
Mobility
Models
Traces
Synthetic
Models
Entity Mobility
Model
Group Mobility
Models
Random
Walk
Reference
Point
City
Mobility
Nomadic
Manhattan
Grid
Pursue
GaussMarkov
Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
5. SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
The simulation is done using ns2. The simulation time for
this experiment is 500 seconds. In table 1, the simulation
parameters are presented in detail.
Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
Table 1. Simulation parameters for field trip scenario
Pause Time
Packet size
Max queue length
Traffic
Routing protocol
Transport Layer
Value
500 Sec
1200m x 1200m
Omni antenna
21, 41, 61, 81
2
Gauss-Markov, RWP,
RPGM, Nomadic
2
512 Bytes
150
CBR (Constant bit rate)
DSR or OLSR or ZRP
UDP
120
100
80
60
Parameter
Simulation time
Simulation area
Antenna
No. of nodes
Speed
Mobility Model
40
20
0
21
RWP
41
61
81
Number of nodes
Nomadic
Gauss Markov
RPGM
10
8
6
NRL
4
2
0
21
41
61
81
Nomadic
RPGM
Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
120
5000
100
80
3000
4000
60
40
2000
20
1000
0
0
21
21
RWP
41
61
81
Number of nodes
Gauss Markov
Nomadic
Nomadic
81
Gauss Markov
RPGM
RPGM
Figure 13. PDF vs Number of nodes
30000
25000
20000
6
NRL
Dropped Packets
41
61
Number of nodes
RWP
15000
10000
5000
0
21
0
21
RWP
Nomadic
41
61
41
61
81
RWP
Number of nodes Gauss Markov
Nomadic
RPGM
81
Number of nodes
Gauss Markov
RPGM
10000
8000
6000
E2E Delay (ms)
4000
2000
0
21
41
61
81
Number of nodes
RWP
Gauss Markov
Nomadic
RPGM
Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
30
25
NRL
20
30000
10
25000
Dropped Packets
20000
15000
21
41
61
Number of nodes
RWP
10000
5000
81
Gauss Markov
Nomadic
RPGM
0
21
41
61
81
Number of nodes
Gauss Markov
RWP
Nomadic
10000
RPGM
8000
6000
E2E Delay (ms)
4000
2000
0
21
41
61
Number of nodes
81
RWP
Gauss Markov
Nomadic
RPGM
5000
120
4000
100
3000
Dropped Packets
80
PDF
15
60
40
20
0
21
41
61
Number of nodes
81
RWP
Gauss Markov
Nomadic
RPGM
2000
1000
0
21
RWP
41
Number of nodes
Nomadic
61
81
Gauss Markov
RPGM
Munish Sharma et al.,International Journal of Wireless Communications and Network Technologies, 4(1), December January 2015, 1-8
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
REFERENCES
1. R. Misra, C. R. Mandal. Performance comparison of
AODV/DSR on-demand routing protocols for ad
hoc networks in constrained situation. IEEE Int.
Conf. on Personal Wireless Communications, pp. 8689, Jan. 2005.
2. G. Jayakumar, G. Ganapathy. Performance
Comparison of Mobile Ad-hoc Network Routing
Protocol. Int. J. of Comp. Science and Network
Security, Vol.7, No.11, Nov. 2007.
3. V. Thapar, B. Jain, V. Sahni. Performance Analysis of
Ad hoc Routing Protocols Using Random Waypoint
Mobility Model In Wireless Sensor. International
Journal On computer Science and Engineering
(IJCSE), Vol. 3, No.8 August 2011.
4. P. Nand , S.C.Sharma. Comparative Study and
Performance Analysis of FSR,ZRP and AODV
Routing Protocols for MANET. IJCA Proceedings on
International Conference and workshop on Emerging
Trends in Technology (ICWET), Vol. 2, pp. 14-19,
2011.
5. A. K. Maurya, D. Singh, and A. Kumar. Performance
Comparison of DSR, OLSR and FSR Routing
Protocols in MANET Using Random Waypoint
Mobility Model. International Journal of Information
and Electronics Engineering, Vol. 3, no. 5, pp.
440-443, 2013.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.