Impact of area's shape on MANET performance

Abstract

The Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are normally deployed in the disaster affected areas where there is a big damage to infrastructural resources or in the military operations in the remote areas, where the infrastructural resources are virtually nonexistent. The performance of these networks is known to be dependent upon various parameters such as transmission range, mobility, bandwidth and residual power of the nodes, and the network size. Literature provides the study of the impact of these parameters on the MANET performance. This paper provides the impact of a new parameter, the shape of the area where the ad hoc network is to be deployed, on the performance of ad hoc networks through simulation in MATLAB.

Evaluation of MANET Performance in Presence of Obstacles

“…Due to absence of centralized routers, each node in MANET has to act as a gateway, transmitter and receiver, making the routing task even more challenging than other conventional wireless networks. In addition to above several other factors such as areas shape where the network is to be deployed [2], limited bandwidth, processing capability, memory, battery power, and unpredictable movement of the nodes also affect the reachability significantly. The unpredictable behaviour of nodes in MANET results in their random organization which alters the topology of the network rapidly and unpredictably.…”