Simulation Framework for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

摘要

Recent advances in portable computing and wireless technologies are opening up exciting possibilities for the future of wireless mobile networking. A Mobile Ad hoc network (MANET) consists of mobile platforms which are free to move arbitrarily. This is in contrast with the topology of the existing Internet, where the router topology is essentially static. In a MANET, the nodes are mobile and inter-node connectivity may change frequently during normal operation. In this paper we will focus our attention on one of current protocols, AODV. We also present a typical ad hoc network topology model. At last simulation results are given to show the efficiency in the ad hoc networks. The main result derived from our investigation is that the efficiency of multi-hop drops step by step, then it will keep a steady level, while the node density has no influence over the efficiency.