MANET performance for source and destination moving scenarios considering OLSR and AODV protocols

Recently, a great interest is shown in MANETs potential usag e nd applications in several fields such as military activities, rescue operations and time-critical applicat ions. In this work, we implement and analyse a MANET testbed c onsidering AODV and OLSR protocols for wireless multi-hop networking. We investigate the effect of mobility and topology changing i MANET and evaluate the performance of the network through ex periments in a real environment. The performance assessmen t of our testbed is done considering throughput, number of dro pped packets and delay. We designed four scenarios: Static, Source Moving, Destination Moving and Source-Destination Moving . From our experimental results, we concluded that when the communicating nodes are moving and the routes change quickl y, OLSR (as a proactive protocol) performs better than AODV, which is a reactive protocol.