An Efficient Analysis of Ad-Hoc on Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol at Different Transmitted Power and Speeds

Abstract—Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a dynamic system which is totally free of fixed infrastructure. In (MANETs), each node is responsible for routing its data according to a specific routing protocol. The three most common ad hoc routing protocols are Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) and Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR). This paper proposes an efficient evaluation of AODV routing protocol by testing the MANETs routing protocol with variation in transmission power at different speeds. The performance analysis has been given using OPNET Modeler simulations and evaluated using metrics of throughput and delay. The results show that the throughput increases as the transmission power increases up to a certain value after which the throughput decreases, also the network work optimally at a certain transmission power which varied at different speed . Keywords—MANET, AODV, Throughput, End to End Delay, OPNET