IMPACT OF NODE MOBILITY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF AODV, BELLMAN FORD AND ZRP ROUTING PROTOCOLSIN MANET
Abstract
The performance of routing protocols can be evaluated in naturalistic conditions of any Mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET) using simulation method. The performance of MANET depends on various parameters and network scenario such as number of nodes, mobility speed, routing protocols, mobility model and energy models etc. In this paper, researchers made an effort to evaluate the impact of node mobility on the performance of AODV, Bellman Ford and ZRP routing protocols with varying mobility speed under random waypoint mobility model in the MANET. Detailed simulations have been carried out using QualNet simulator for 50 nodes. Performance of AODV, Bellman Ford and ZRP routing protocols has been evaluated under the premise of performance metrics namely average throughput, average end to end delay and average jitter using CBR traffic patterns.