Recently, as the applications for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) get various, performance analysis of MANET has become one of the main research areas. However, most prior performance analysis results for ad-hoc routing protocols have been based upon ...
Recently, as the applications for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) get various, performance analysis of MANET has become one of the main research areas. However, most prior performance analysis results for ad-hoc routing protocols have been based upon the model which each node in the network moves independently without restriction. In most real environments, however, it is very common for a group or multiple groups to move under the direction of group leader or group leaders instead of each node's independent movement. This study presents the performance analysis of routing protocols for mobile ad-hoc network under group mobility environment. The comparative simulations have been made between a table-driven protocol, DSDV, and two on-demand protocols, AODV and DSR, under a group mobility model, RPGM, which is suitable for the practical applications such as military tactical operation. Multiple group movements are also included. The results show that the protocol performances for single group movement are very similar to node independent movement case. However some differences have been observed by varying pause time and connectivity. Most researches done so far also are based upon very simple radio propagation model such as the free space or two-ray ground model. Since the simple model cannot cover complicated but practical outdoor environments which usually have radio propagation obstacles such as buildings or trees, it is easily expected that there will a big gap between the analysis using this model and the real situation. In order to find the appropriate model for common outdoor environments we need comparative performance data using various radio propagation models, however, for which few study has been made. Therefore this thesis presents the simulation results of the impacts of the various propagation models to MANET performance analysis. Simulations have been made using the group mobility which usually models very common ad-hoc situations such as military force movements or disaster recovery activities under the supervision of a leader. For typical on-demand routing protocol, AODV, performance analysis has been done in terms of node-to-node distance, number of nodes in a group, and group movement speed. Our results show that most popular the free space and the two-ray ground models are too optimistic, which informs us that there can be a big difference between conventional performance analysis and the real ad-hoc situation.