Affiliations: Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of
Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan | Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei
University, 3-3-1 Kichijoji-Kitamachi, Musashino-Shi, Tokyo, Japan | Department of Information and Communication
Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi,
Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan | Department of Electronic and Telecommunication,
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Mother Teresa Square, Nr. 4, Tirana,
Albania
Abstract: Recently, a great interest is shown in MANETs potential usage and
applications in several fields such as military activities, rescue operations
and time-critical applications. In this work, we implement and analyse a MANET
testbed considering AODV and OLSR protocols for wireless multi-hop networking.
We investigate the effect of mobility and topology changing in MANET and
evaluate the performance of the network through experiments in a real
environment. The performance assessment of our testbed is done considering
throughput, number of dropped 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 quickly, OLSR (as a proactive protocol) performs
better than AODV, which is a reactive protocol.
