A Comparative Study of Ga-Based and AOMDV Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been the subject of much study because to their meteoric rise in popularity in the last few years. This paper compares the performance of the well-established Ad hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) protocol with that of a new GA-based routing protocol using a thorough simulation analysis. The simulations were run in a dynamic setting using Network Simulator 2 (NS2), with nodes dispersed across a 1250m × 1250m area with numbers ranging from 40 to 120. A variety of traffic sources, including as CBR, video, and TCP, were accommodated by the network setup, which made use of IEEE 802.11 as the media access control protocol. The transmission range was 250 meters, and each packet was 512 bytes in size. The simulations included node mobility at 10, 20, 30, and 40 m/s speeds, starting with 10.3 joules of energy, 0.660 W of transmission power, and 0.395 W of reception power. Throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), and End-to-End Delay were the primary performance measures examined in the research. Throughput, packet delivery ratios, and latency are all improved upon by the suggested GA-based protocol compared to AOMDV, according to the simulation results, which hold true for different node densities and mobility patterns.