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Evaluation of MANET Performance in Presence of Obstacles

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International Journal of Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC), 3 (3): 10 (June 2012)
DOI: 10.5121/ijasuc.2012.3303

Abstract

The mobility models are used to represent the unpredictable movement pattern of the nodes in Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) and give us an idea regarding their location, velocity and acceleration change over time. These models are used for simulation purpose in standard software tools such as QualNet, ns-2 etc. This paper evaluates the performance of routing protocols for mobility models such as Random Way Point (RWP), Random Walk (RW) and Random Direction (RD) in presence of obstacles like mountain which restricts node movement as well obstruct transmission path between nodes based on a parameter termed as Probability of Reachability (POR). The POR is defined as the fraction of reachable routes to all possible routes between all pairs of sources and destinations. For this purpose a simulator is designed in MATLAB. We observe a marked difference in value of POR in presence of obstacles as well as variation in number of obstacles.

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