Performance comparison of BATMAN and AODV protocols for source and destination moving scenarios

摘要

In recent years, MANETs are continuing to attract the attention for their potential use in several fields such as military activities, rescue operations and time-critical applications. In this paper, we present the implementation and analysis of our implemented MANET testbed considering AODV and BATMAN protocols for wireless multi-hop networking. We investigate the effect of mobility and topology changing in MANET. We evaluate the performance of the routing protocols through experiments in real environment. In this work, we consider four scenarios: Static, Source Moving, Destination Moving and Source-Destination Moving. We assess the performance of our testbed in terms of throughput, number of dropped packets and delay. From our experiments, we found that NLOS communication brings a lot of deteriorations to network performance, but BATMAN protocol has a better behaviour than AODV protocol in the case when no routes are available, because of the buffering feature.