Analysing Performance of Aodv Routing Protocol in Mobile Adhoc Networks

Abstract: Mobile Ad-hoc network is a collection of mobile nodes that communicate via wireless links and communication is carried out without any centralized control or fixed infrastructure. Each node participating in the network can act as host and router. The nodes in mobile ad-hoc network are free to move independently therefore topology changes frequently. Thus to route packets from source to destination, routing protocol is needed. Routing is the important issue in ad-hoc networks. A number of routing protocols have been implemented. Ad-hoc network routing protocols can be broadly divided into two categories proactive and reactive protocols. The main goal of this paper is to evaluate performance of Ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing protocol (reactive protocol) in Mobile ad-hoc networks with different network parameters using matlab. Our basic goal is to present vast information related to AODV protocol and to analyze its performance using different performance metrics such as packet delivery ratio, throughput, packet loss ratio and packet drop rate.

Keywords: Manet, AODV, Performance metrics, Matlab.