Performance Investigation of Single Path and Multi Path Routing Protocols in High Mobility MANETs

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks are the collection of wireless nodes which communicate with each other without the support of centralized infrastructure. Due to frequent node mobility in high mobility MANETs, the network topology changes dynamically. Each node in MANET acts as host and router. A routing protocol is used to discover route between nodes. Robust routing protocol is needed to allow the nodes to communicate in high mobility MANETs. This paper investigates the performance of single path routing protocol AODV and multipath routing protocol AOMDV under different mobility conditions. Performance evaluation of these protocols showed that AOMDV protocol is more robust than AODV protocol due to its capability of finding and using alternate routes in case of a route failure in high mobility MANETs.

Comparative Study of Two Reactive Routing Protocols with Realistic Mobility Model

“…They concluded that AOMDV outperformed AODV routing protocol in terms of PDR, THP, AED and PDP with pause time and the number of connections. Moudgil and Rana (2017), the authors investigated the performance of single path routing protocol (AODV) and multipath routing protocol (AOMDV) under different mobility conditions. The authors reported that AOMDV protocol is more robust than AODV protocol due to its ability to find and use alternative paths in case of a path failure in high mobility MANETs.…”