A Performance Simulation for Stationary End Nodes in Ad Hoc Networks

In ad hoc mobile networks (MANET), the mobility of the modes is a complicating factor that significantly affects the effectiveness and performance of the AODV routing protocol. Complexed mobility for each node such as intermediate and end nodes restrains to extract features of each routing protocol. In this paper, we focus on the performance of the routing protocols for stationary end nodes in ad hoc networks using a network simulator (NS-2). Our simulation results explore following two performance features. Firstly, route stability is more sensitive to the number of intermediate nodes than the speed of intermediate nodes. Secondly, the number of RREQ packets linearly increases in terms of the number of node. Finally, the TCP performance between two stationary end nodes with intermediate mobile nodes degrades from 10 to 20% compared to the stationary intermediate nodes in terms of the number of nodes and node speeds.