Connections analysis of voice traffic over MANETs and their impact on delay variation

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) have been initially proposed for short-session exchanges of small data chunks in emergency and tactical missions, where network´ infrastructure is inexistent or temporally broken. The quick rise of processing and communication capabilities of mobile devices allows moving toward offering user-friendly and delay-sensitive multimedia services over a MANET. The integration of multimedia services needs a good understanding of the effects of MANETs on the applications running contexts. This work aims at exploring network delay processes of packet voice communications on mobile ad-hoc networks. To do that, a wide range of representative scenarios has been defined and simulated. The gathered traces have been inspected from qualitative and quantitative perspectives in order to discover (1) dependency between up/down path lifetime and delay variation processes, and (2) features of network delay variation at transport-layer.