Design and Performance Analysis of Reference Point Group Mobility Model for Mobile Ad hoc Network

Abstract

A Mobile Adhoc Network is a network which is made up numerous mobile nodes, that are wireless in nature and they self-organize themselves to form an environment with an arbitrary and ever-changing topology. These networks do not have any pre-established infrastructure and they do not require some central management. Each of the mobile station in MANET can work as source, receiver and router then they have no restrictions to move anywhere in the network. MANETs can be uses in various civilian and military applications such as classrooms, battlefields and tragedy management activities. In such scenarios, we find correlated movement among the nodes. The Reference Point Group Mobility (RPGM) model is based on correlated node mobility. This work demonstrates design and performance analysis of RPGM model, with the help of the reactive routing protocols (RPs) like AODV which is Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector and AOMDV which is Ad hoc On demand Multipath Distance Vector. The network simulator NS2 has been used to perform the simulations.