Design and Implementation of a Testbed for Mobile Adhoc Network Protocols

Akhtar Hussain; Aimel Khan; Abdul Rehman Qaiser; Muhammad Mohsin Akhtar; Obaidullah Khalid; Muhammad Faisal Khan

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Design and Implementation of a Testbed for Mobile Adhoc Network Protocols

Akhtar Hussain, Aimel Khan, Abdul Rehman Qaiser, Muhammad Mohsin Akhtar, Obaidullah Khalid, Muhammad Faisal Khan

Published in International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Volume 2, Issue 4)

Received: 24 October 2014 Accepted: 16 November 2014 Published: 2 December 2014

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Abstract

Due to the significant growth in the area of wireless communication in the last few years, Quality of Service (QoS) has become an important consideration for supporting variety of applications. Elaborate testing of newly developed Mobile Adhoc Network’s routing protocols in real world scenarios is a key step for providing QoS to the users. In order to test the developed Adhoc Routing Protocols, an IEEE 802.11 based testbed has been developed in the paper. Some well-known Adhoc network protocols were implemented and tested in user space daemon in Linux. All the key parameters necessary for assessing an Adhoc Network Protocol have been analyzed. A user application was developed in Java NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to ensure repeatability and to provide a mobility model to the users in an efficient way. Customized and special purpose nodes have been developed by integrating various hardware components, in order to improve the efficiency and robustness of the testbed. Some of the well-known protocols have been tested by exposing the configured nodes to an outdoor atmosphere to cater all the unforeseen environmental factors, which affect the performance of Adhoc Protocols. Different performance metrics like overhead, throughput, end to end delay, average jitter and packet loss were evaluated by varying mobility, number of hops, packet size and pause time.

Published in	International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Volume 2, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.wcmc.20140204.11
Page(s)	42-51
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Ad-hoc Routing Protocols, AODV, B.A.T.M.A.N, File Transfer Protocol, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Test-Bed, Network Time Protocol, OLSR

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Akhtar Hussain, Aimel Khan, Abdul Rehman Qaiser, Muhammad Mohsin Akhtar, Obaidullah Khalid, et al. (2014). Design and Implementation of a Testbed for Mobile Adhoc Network Protocols. International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2(4), 42-51. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.wcmc.20140204.11

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Akhtar Hussain

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Aimel Khan

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Abdul Rehman Qaiser

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Mohsin Akhtar

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Obaidullah Khalid

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Faisal Khan

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

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