Real-Time Emulation to Investigate the Performance of LANMARK Routing Protocol in MANET
Abstract
In real-time, wireless ad hoc network finds its applicability where there is no centralized infrastructure or the existing infrastructure is utterly broken. Ad hoc network with the mobility property has numerous challenging issues that include network environment, weather, mobility speeds, topology dynamics and inadequate battery source. In this paper an attempt has been made to investigate the effect of mobility on Landmark routing protocol. Lot of effort is put in such investigations with the help of simulators as the high difficulty is involved in deploying, investigating and testing the actual ad-hoc networks, and the absence of adequate software aids. Thus EXata provisions a new network research. It facilitates guidance on how a real-time emulation can be set up. The primary constituent is a mobility emulator to investigate an ad-hoc network virtually that scales wide without essentially moving the nodes physically. A hierarchical routing protocol LANMAR is investigated under different network conditions using simulation and emulation as a research methodology.