Volume 9, Number 17, December 2019
A Systematic Evaluation of Manet Routing Protocols over UDP and TCP in Multi-hop Wireless Network
Authors
Adebayo Seyi1 and Ogunseyi Taiwo2, 1China University of Mining and Technology, China and 2Communication University of China, China
Abstract
There are genuine concerns for the right transport connection to be deployed on a particular
routing protocol in order to have a reliable, fast and robust communication in spite of the size
and the dynamics of the mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) topology. This paper comparatively
studies the individual implementation of reactive and proactive protocols on both UDP and
TCP transport connection using packet delivery ratio (PDR), throughput, end to end delay and
delay variation (jitter) as quality of service (QoS) metrics.
We studied the combination of both the transport connection and routing protocol that will
deliver the best QoS in simple and complex network scenarios with source and destination
nodes fixed and the intermediate nodes randomly moving throughout the simulation time. More
so, the intrinsic characteristics of the routing protocols regarding the QoS metrics and
transport connection are studied. Forty simulations were run for simple and complex multi-hop
network models and the results were analyzed and presented.
Keywords
MANET, Proactive, Reactive, QoS, UDP, TCP