Impact of Source and Destination Movement on MANET Performance Considering BATMAN and AODV Protocols

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. We found that, when routes are changing often, the BATMAN has better performance than AODV because it put the packets in a buffer. While, because AODV is a reactive protocol, it introduces some delay in the network.