PERFORMANCE-ORIENTED COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MOBILITY-BASED ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN FANET, MANET, AND VANET AD HOC NETWORKS USING OPNET MODELER FOR FTP AND WEB APPLICATIONS

Abstract

      In FANET (Flying ad-hoc network), VANET (Vehicular ad-hoc network), MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Network), the phenomena routing happens without the support of infrastructure.  To accomplish these tasks, the nodes used to act as both router and the host.  The design of routing protocol is very complex and challenging, because of the unpredictable varying topologies in these ad-hoc networks. In this paper the performance of the three ad-hoc networks are analysed in terms of its response from the network parameters such as delay, throughput, media access delay, load, retransmission attempts network loads and throughputs.  The simulation is carried out in riverbed modeler academic edition 17.5.  In this paper, based on simulation results, the routing protocols are categorized in terms of performance for the network parameters. Also the performance of routing protocols is analysed based on its individual performance on the network parameters.