Mohammed Tarique and Rumana Islam
Department of Electrical Engineering, Ajman University-Fujairah Campus
P.O. Box 2202, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
ABSTRACT
Deterministic channel models have been widely used in simulation and modeling of ad hoc network for a
long time. But, deterministic channel models are too simple to represent a real-world ad hoc network
scenario. Recently, random channel models have drawn considerable attention of the researchers in this
field. The results presented in the literature show that random channel models have a grave impact on the
performance of an ad hoc network. A comprehensive investigation on this issue is yet to be available in the
literature. In this investigation, we consider both deterministic and random channel models to investigate
their effects on ad hoc networks. We consider two different types of routing protocols namely single path
and multipath routing protocols. We choose Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV), Dynamic
Source Routing Protocol (DSR), and Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) as the single path
routing protocols. On the other hand, we choose Ad-hoc On-Demand Multiple Path Distance Vector
(AOMDV) as the multipath routing protocol. The results show that some single path routing protocol can
outperform multipath routing protocol under both deterministic and random channel conditions. These
results surprisingly contradict the popular claim that multipath routing protocol always outperforms single
path routing protocol. A guideline for choosing an appropriate routing protocol for adhoc network has also
been provided in this work.
KEYWORDS
Network Protocols, Single Path, Multipath, DSR, AODV, DSDV, AOMDV, Random Channel, Deterministic Channels, Network Performances
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