Performance evaluation of various types of nodes in

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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF VARIOUS TYPES OF NODES IN
MANET WITH DSR ROUTING PROTOCOLS
Puneet Mittal1
, Paramjeet Singh2
, Shaveta Rani3
1
Dept. of Computer Engg, Govt. Polytechnic College, Bathinda, Punjab, India
2, 3
Dept. of Computer Science and Engg, GZS PTU Campus, Bathinda, Punjab, India
engg.puneet@yahoo.co.in, param2009@yahoo.com, garg_shavy@yahoo.com
Abstract
Day by day, wireless communication popularity growing fast, it has led wireless communication data rates higher and made its prices
cheaper, that’s why wireless communication is growing so fast. The latest technological demands now a day’s arising from laptops,
wireless devices such as wireless local area networks (LANs) etc. In this paper we compared different types of node in MANET like
static nodes, dynamic nodes and dynamic nodes with trajectory by using Dynamic routing protocol (DSR) and compared the
performance of these nodes by using OPNET simulator 14.5. The performance is evaluated under different parameters like Data
Dropped (Retry Threshold Exceeded), Load, Media access delay and Network Load by using FTP load.
Keywords: MANET, Peak Value, Protocol, Trajectory.
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1. INTRODUCTION
In mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a collection of mobile
nodes and any node can disappear or join anytime at any
location in the network. Manet has multi-hop commutation
capability. There is no centralized administration and no
dedicated routers or other network infrastructures to support
the nodes. Any node can be a sender or receiver as well as a
router and they can forward the data packets to another node.
In these types of networks each node works as an independent
router. MANET is a fast growing area of research [1].
A Wireless Network transmits data from node to node by
using a central base station (Access Point). There are two
types of wireless network: (1) Standalone Architecture in
which all devices are directly communicating with each other
in peer to peer communication node. (2) Centrally Co-
ordinated Architecture in which all devices are connected with
the help of access point. MANET is one of the types of Ad
hoc network in which of wireless nodes (connected by
wireless links) that performing a dynamically network without
using any established infrastructure or centralized
administration. It can be setup anywhere and anytime with
free to move randomly and act as router.
In MANET, protocols are classification into three categories:
(1) Proactive protocols or table driven provide fast response
to topology changes by continuously monitoring topology
changes and disseminating the related information as needed
over the network [2] like Optimized Link State Routing
(OLSR), Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector (DSDV)
Routing Algorithm, Wireless Routing Protocol (WRP), Global
State Routing (GSR), Fisheye State Routing (FSR),
Hierarchical State Routing (HSR), Zone-based Hierarchical
Link State Routing Protocol (ZHLS). (2) Reactive routing or
on demand protocols such as Ad hoc in demand distance
vector (AODV), find the route only when there is data to be
transmitted as a result, generate low control traffic and routing
overhead. Dynamic Source routing protocol (DSR), each data
packet contains complete routing information to reach its
dissemination and each node uses caching technology to
maintain route information. (3) Hybrid protocol could be
derived from the two previous ones, containing the advantages
of both the protocols.
Among all on-demand routing protocols DSR is straight
forward, simple, and recently a lot of modifications and
improvements are going on in this protocol. Some are
introducing security and power issues and many other
concepts. Therefore we are closely examining the protocol and
its performance under various working conditions using
simulation techniques. This paper is organized as follows. In
sec. 2, we describe the Dynamic routing protocol (DSR) in
MANET. Sec 3, gives various parameters traffic loads in
MANET. In sec 4, simulation environment in OPNET
SIMULATOR 14.5 is given. Sec 5 shows the results and
discussion about the performance of various nodes in MANET
by using DSR protocol. Conclusion is given in Sec 6.
2. DYNAMIC ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN MANET
DSR is also a reactive routing protocol. It uses the concept of
source routing [3]. In source routing the sender knows all hop-
by-hop routes to the destination. All the routes are stored in

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the route cache. When a node attempts to send a data packet to
a destination it does not know the route. In DSR each node
maintains a route cache with route entries which are
continuously updated. The advantage of DRS is that no
periodic routing packets are required. It is used to updates its
route caches by finding new routes [4]. DSR has also the
capability to handle unidirectional links. The sender of the
packets selects and controls the route used for its own packets,
which also supports features such as load balancing. All routes
used are guaranteed to be free of loops as the sender can avoid
duplicate hops in the selected routes. The following sections
introduce state machines that implement a simple DSR routing
protocol without caching. There are basically 4 separate state
machines to implement that each handles one of the following
events [5]:
1. SENDING DATA: When a node wants to send data
and data message is triggered as a send request then the
next hop has be determined. A route request has to be
broadcast to discover a route to the destination node.
After receiving the route reply from the destination
node the actual data message can be transmitted via the
newly discovered.
Fig 1: Flow Chart Sending Activity Diagram
2. INCOMING ROUTE REQUEST MESSAGE: When
a route request message is received by a node, several
tasks have to be done depending on the content of the
received message. Firstly, it is checked whether the
message was already processed earlier by this node. If
yes, the request is simply discarded and no action is
taken. If the route request is addressed to the receiving
node, a route reply message has to be created and
replied to the request’s sender. In all other cases the
route request’s node list is extended by the own node
ID and broadcasted to all neighboring nodes.
Fig 2: Flow Chart of Route Request
3. INCOMING ROUTE REPLY MESSAGE: In case a
route reply message is received there are two cases: The
receiving node is the destination of the message or it is
an intermediate node on the route between sender and
destination. If it is the destination node the data
transmission that caused the route discovery can be
accomplished. In case the route reply is received by an
intermediate node, it is forwarded to the next node in
the reply’s node list.
Fig 3: Flow Chart of Route Reply
4. INCOMING DATA MESSAGE: If the data message
is addressed to the receiving node (it is the last hop of
the route) the payload can be handed to the upper layer
to be processed by any application. The routing
mechanism has finished. If not, the next hop is
determined from the data message’s node list and the
packet is forwarded to this node.

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Fig 4: Flow Chart of Data Message
DSR contains 2 phases:
2.1 Route Discovery (Find A Path)
If sender node has in his route cache a route to the destination
node, this route is immediately used. If not, the route
discovery protocol is started:
Step 1: sender node sends a route request packet by
flooding the network. Each route request packet contains:
route record, initiator address, request ID
Step 2: if the route discovery is successful the initiating host
receives a route reply packet.
Step 3: when any host receives a route request packet, it
processes the request accounting to the following steps.
a) If <initiator address, request id> is found I
this host then discards the route request
packet.
b) If this host’s address is already listed in the
route record discard the route request
packet.
c) If the target of the request matches this
host’s address return a copy of this route
in a route reply packet to the initiator.
d) Otherwise, append this host’s address to the
route record and re-broadcast the request.
After getting the route reply the sender send the data to the
destination.
2.2 Route Maintenance
In DSR every node is responsible for confirming that the next
hop in the source route receives the packet. Also each packet
is only forwarded once by a node (hop-by-hop routing). If a
packet can’t be received by a node, it is retransmitted up to
some maximum number of times until a confirmation is
received from the next hop. Only if retransmission results in a
failure, a Route Error message is sent to the initiator that can
remove that source route from its route cache. So the initiator
can check his route cache for another route to the target. If
there is no route in the cache, a route request packet is
broadcasted.
Fig 5: Example of DSR protocol
Step 1: if node C does not receive an acknowledgement form
node D after some number of requests, it returns a Route Error
to the initiator A.
Step 2: As soon as node receives the Route Error message, it
deletes the broken-link-route from its cache. If A has another
route to E, it sends the packet immediately using this new
route.
Step 3: Otherwise the initiator A is starting the Route
Discovery process again.
3. VARIOUS PARAMETERS IN TRAFFIC LOADS
Table 1 shows the various simulation parameters.

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All these parameters help us to evaluate the best routing
protocol between them. All the parameters that have taken
play a very vital role to judge or evaluate the performance of
the wireless network. In this paper we can use Data Dropped
(Retry Threshold Exceeded), Load, Media access delay and
Network Load Parameters to evaluate the performance of
various nodes in Manet.
4. SIMULATION ENVIROMENT
Several researchers have done the qualitative and quantative
analysis of ad hoc routing protocol by means of different
performance metrics. They have used different simulators for
this purpose which is one of several tools provided from the
OPNET Technologies suite. For undertake the experimental
evaluation, the most recently available version, namely
OPNET MODELER 14.5 has been adopted in our study
OPNET is one of the most extensively used commercial
simulators based on Microsoft Windows Platform, which
incorporates most of the MANET routing parameters
compared to other commercial simulators available [6]. The
network entities used during the design of the network model
are wireless server, application configuration, profile
configuration, mobility configuration and workstations
(nodes).
Table 2: Simulation parameters
Fig 6: Environment Scenario of 10 Fixed Nodes
In this Scenario, mobile nodes are fixed and work as static
nodes..
Fig 7: Environment Scenario of 10 Dynamic Mobile Nodes
Dynamic Mobile nodes are free to move arbitrarily which is
typically multi-hop. It may change randomly and rapidly at
unpredictable times. It consist of both bidirectional and
unidirectional links.
SIMULATION
PARAMETER
VALUE
Simulator OPNET MODELER 14.5
Area 200m
Network Size 10 nodes
Protocol DSR
Mobility Model Random Way Point
Traffic Type FTP
Simulation Time 10 (Min)
Address Mode IPv4
Inter Repetition time Exponential (4)
Route Expiry Time 300 Sec
Buffer Expiry time 30 Sec

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Fig 8: Environment Scenario of 10 Mobile Nodes with Vector
Trajectory
A trajectory is defined as the path of a point moving with time.
The trajectory obtained through visual tracking is important to
many further analyses as they provide compact records of
motion and characterize behaviour of each mobile. A key
function of the vector system is the identification of mobile
type. When the type is identified then this vector measure is
compared with entries in a database and the best fit is
determined to be the specific mobile type.
5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
5.1 File Transfer Protocols (FTP) Load
5.1.1 Data Dropped (Retry Threshold Exceeded)
(Bits/Sec)
Fig 9: Comparison of DSR with static nodes, dynamic nodes
and trajectory nodes for Data Dropped (Retry Threshold
Exceeded)(Bits/Sec) in FTP Load
In figure 9, X-axis denotes time which is in minutes and Y-
axis denotes data rate which is in bits/sec. It shows that the
average peak value of Data Dropped (Retry Threshold
Exceeded) is almost 606.896552 bits/sec for Static Nodes/
Fixed Nodes, 404.597701 bits/sec for Dynamic nodes and
414.528736 bits/sec for Dynamic nodes with Trajectory. After
10 minutes, it gradually drops as time progress and reaches to
almost 176 bits/sec for Static Nodes / Fixed Nodes, 117.33333
bits/sec for Dynamic Nodes and 123.09333 bits/sec for
Dynamic nodes with Trajectory.
5.2 Load (Bit/sec)
and trajectory nodes for Load (Bits/Sec) in FTP Load
average peak value of Load is almost 606.896552 bits/sec for
Static Nodes/ Fixed Nodes, 404.597701 bits/sec for Dynamic
nodes and 414.528736 bits/sec for Dynamic nodes with
Trajectory. After 10 minutes, it gradually drops as time
progress and reaches to almost 176 bits/sec for Static Nodes /
Fixed Nodes, 117.33333 bits/sec for Dynamic Nodes and
123.09333 bits/sec for Dynamic nodes with Trajectory.

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5.3 Media Access Delay (Sec)
Fig 11: Comparison of DSR with static nodes, dynamic
nodes and trajectory nodes for Media Access Delay (Sec) in
FTP Load
In figure 11, X-axis denotes time in minutes and Y-axis is
denotes the time in seconds. It shows that the average peak
value of Media access delay is almost 0.006626 seconds for
Static Nodes/ Fixed Nodes, 0.003571 seconds for Dynamic
nodes and 0.001047 seconds for Dynamic nodes with
Trajectory. After 10 minutes, it gradually drops as time
progress and reaches to almost 0.003949 seconds for Static
Nodes / Fixed Nodes, 0.002187 seconds for Dynamic Nodes
and 0.000608 seconds for Dynamic nodes with Trajectory.
5.4 Network Load (bits/sec)
and trajectory nodes for Network Load (Bits/Sec) in FTP Load
average peak value of Network Load is almost 55.17241379
bits/sec for Static Nodes/ Fixed Nodes, 36.7816092 bits/sec
for Dynamic nodes and 46.71264368 bits/sec for Dynamic
nodes with Trajectory. After 10 minutes, it gradually drops as
time progress and reaches to almost 16 bits/sec for Static
Nodes / Fixed Nodes, 10.66667 bits/sec for Dynamic Nodes
and 5.866667 bits/sec for Dynamic nodes with Trajectory.
Table 2 shows numeric values of various parameters taken
into consideration for FTP load in Static nodes, Dynamic
Nodes and Dynamic nodes with Trajectory in MANET by
using Dynamic Routing Protocol. It gives the performance
comparison of 3 Scenario: Static nodes, Dynamic Nodes and
Dynamic nodes with Trajectory in MANET in terms of Data
Dropped (Retry Threshold Exceeded), Load, Media access
delay and Network Load for FTP load.
Table 3: Values of various parameters corresponding to 3 Scenario: Static nodes, Dynamic Nodes and Dynamic nodes with Trajectory
in MANET
Parameters
DSR PROTOCOL
Static Nodes Dynamic Nodes
Dynamic Nodes with
Trajectory
Peak value Drop value Peak value Drop value Peak value Drop value
Data dropped (retry threshold
exceeded) (bits/sec)
606.89 176 404.59 117.33 414.52 123.09
Load (bits/sec) 606.89 176 404.59 117.33 414.52 123.09
Media Access Delay (Sec) 0.0066 0.0039 0.0035 0.0021 0.0010 0.0006
Network Load (bits/sec) 55.17 16 36.78 10.66 46.71 5.86

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As shown in Table 2, Static Nodes performs better than
Dynamic Nodes and Dynamic Nodes with trajectory for Data
dropped (Retry Threshold exceeded), Load, media Access
Delay and Network Load. In overall Static Nodes performs
better because it is easy to maintain and update the network
than Dynamic nodes and dynamic nodes with Trajectory. In
Static nodes network everything is done with the permission
by network administration authority but in Dynamic every
node is free to move or disappear/join. In dynamic network it
is difficult to find any node location and also to maintain and
update the network.
CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, we performed the comparison between three
Scenarios: Static nodes, Dynamic Nodes and Dynamic nodes
with Trajectory in MANET with traffic loads FTP in terms of
Data dropped (Retry Threshold exceeded), Load, media
Access Delay and Network Load. The results are taken in
tabular form as well as graphical form by using OPNET
Simulator 14.5. The results show that which Nodes performs
better than another corresponding to FTP traffic load with
DSR Protocol and some important parameters.
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BIOGRAPHIES:
Puneet Mittal received B.Tech (CSE) form
Punjab Technical University in 2007 and
currently pursuing M.Tech (CSE) form Giani
Zail Singh Punjab Technical University
Campus, Bathinda. She is currently working
as Lecturer Computer Engg Department, Govt. Polytechnic
College, Bathinda. Her research area is Adhoc Networks
routing protocols MANET.
Paramjeet Singh reveived PhD from BITS,
Pilani in 2009, M.S (Software System) form
BITS, Pilani in 2002 and B.Tech (CSE) from
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering &
Technology, Longowal in 1998. He is
currently working as Assistant Professor C.S.E Department,
Giani Zail Singh Punjab Technical University Campus,
Bathinda. His research area is Networking, Software Systems
and Computer Graphics. He has to her contribution
International Journals : 11, National Journals : 02,
International Conerences : 12 and National Conferences
: 30.
Shaveta Rani reveived PhD from BITS, Pilani
in 2009, M.S (Software System) form BITS,
Pilani in 2002 and B.Tech (CSE) from Sant
Longowal Institute of Engineering &
Technology, Longowal in 1998. She is
currently working as Assistant Professor C.S.E
Department, Giani Zail Singh Punjab Technical
University Campus, Bathinda. Her research area is
Internetworking, Image Processing and Software Systems She
has to her contribution International Journals : 11, National
Journals : 02, International Conerences : 12 and National
Conferences : 29.

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