Mobility Contrast Effect on Environment in Manet as Mobility Model

Abstract

Manet is a type of ad-hoc network without any infrastructure and connects mobile nodes through wireless channels. It gives environment in which nodes can be connected dynamically as they enter the area. The area can be any place where nodes can move uniformly or randomly like disaster hitting places, shopping malls, airport, station, campus, business meeting, and temple etc. Depending on the terrene, and physical infrastructure and environment that may cause obstacle in the movement of nodes in the given area, the mobility pattern of nodes is different. These involve the mobility environment as major factor for mobile nodes while sharing information in mobile ad-hoc network. The characteristics of mobility of nodes in Manet are application based and have significant impact on the performance of routing protocols. While studying the performance of MANET routing protocols, environment parameter as mobility is important and can be considered remarkably so that realistic scenario can be constructed for the accurate analysis of performance of routing protocols.