Experimental Results of a MANET Testbed in Indoor Stairs Environment

In this paper, we present the implementation and analysis of our Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) testbed considering the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking (B.A.T.M.A.N.) protocols. We consider two kinds of stairs experimental models. One when all the nodes are in stationary state and another one when one node is moving. The mobile node moves toward the destination at a regular speed and when arrives at the corner of stairs is stops for about four seconds. In this work, we assess the performance of our MANET testbed in terms of throughput and packet loss. From our experiments, we found that OLSR protocol has a good performance for both experimental models. We observed that throughput decreased about 40 percent compared with one-hop scenario when all nodes are in stationary state. When the node moves, the throughput is decreased because of stairs environment and mobility. By experiments, we observed that OLSR has better behaviour than B.A.T.M.A.N. Protocol.