Analyzing the Impact of Micro Mobility in Wireless Adhoc Networks

Abstract

Abstract-An adhoc network can be visualized as collection of wireless devices, dynamically creating a short lived network lacking centralized infrastructure where all nodes rely on each other for providing route information in the network. The highly dynamic nature of the nodes needs a very robust and effective routing algorithm. Recently several routing protocols have been projected but few have been implemented yet and prominent among them are DSDV, AODV, TORA, and DSR. It is of extreme importance to deploy a suitable routing protocol as the shift in the routing phenomena can lead to reckonable amount of divergence in efficiency of the networks. In this study, the impact of the mobility has been analyzed on the network efficiency by simulating different scenarios of wireless adhoc networks in NS-2. We have studied the network performance in terms of associated control traffic, packet delivery ratio, and average delay between source & destination. These results can be used as standard showing the suitability of different routing protocols in specific condition as well as in future these can be used to integrate the security phenomena in AODV.