Investigation of AODV Routing Protocol Using RDPA and UDPA

Abstract

The node deployment technique in Mobile Ad Hoc networks plays a vital role in the evaluation of a routing protocol. In this paper, the performance of Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol has been investigated using Uniform and Random Disc Position Allocators offered by NS-3 as Initial Position Allocator as well as Next Position Allocator along with random waypoint mobility model. The simulation results exhibit that AODV routing protocol performs better in case of random disc position allocator as compared to uniform disc position allocator where performance metrics are taken as the Average End-to-End Delay, Throughput and Packet Delivery Ratio.