Performance Evaluation of AODV Routing Protocol in MANET using NS-3 Simulator

Network Simulator is a current and ongoing networking tool for research, especially in the mobile networking area. Network simulation simplifies the design and analysis of network protocols such as AODV routing protocol in MANET. NS-3 is one of the active open source discrete event simulators that supports various characteristic of AODV routing protocol in MANET. In this paper, NS-3 was used to evaluate the performance of AODV routing protocol and analyze the influence of mobility speed and node density. The performance parameters used for the measurement are packet delivery ratio (PDR), throughput and average end-to-end delay (AED). The results acquired from the simulation verify that the mobility speed and node density affect the efficiency of AODV in MANET.