Source and destination mobility effects on a bridge environment: results from a MANET testbed

Abstract

In Mobile Ad-hoc Networks MANETs, nodes create a temporary network by cooperating in an autonomous way, and forwarding packets for each other, while moving usually in a random or unpredictable way. MANETs are attracting attention for their potential use in several fields such as collaborative computing and disaster recovery environments. Considering mobility of the terminals, the routes change more dynamically and routing becomes a key process for operation of MANETs. In this paper, we analyse the performance of Better Approach to Mobile Ad-hoc Networks BATMAN routing protocol in a bridge environment regarding throughput, delay, jitter and packetloss metrics. We consider mobility and vertical communication and implement three scenarios of node movement. According to the experimental results, when source node is moving the performance is better than when destination node is moving.