Shadowing and Mobility Effect on Proactive and Reactive Routing Protocol in MANET

Abstract

In this paper, we compared the proactive routing protocols Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and the reactive routing protocols Ad-hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) in shadowing propagation and mobility model on mobile adhoc network (MANET). There are two test scenarios, such as the impact of user movement velocity and variations in user pause time with Random Way Point (RWP) mobility. In user velocity testing, the greater the speed, the throughput performance will decrease, while the delay and Normalized Routing Load (NRL) will increase. The pause time test describes the dynamics of changing network topology. The longer the pause time, the longer the topology changes, as a result, the throughput parameter increases while the end-to-end delay and NRL decrease. The proactive OLSR shows the best performance compared to other protocols based on throughput parameters, while the reactive AODV outperforms for end-to-end delay and NRL parameters.