On the Performance of the Current MANET Routing Protocols for VoIP, HTTP, and FTP Applications

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameter	Values
Simulator	EXata 3.1
Routing protocol	OLSRv2, MP-OLSR, and DYMO
Simulation area	1000 m × 1000 m
Mobility	RWP, max speed 0–30 m/s
Simulation time	100 seconds
No. of Nodes	25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, and 60
No. of Sources traffic	5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30
Applications traffic	VoIP, HTTP, and FTP
Traffic start-end	15 s–0 s
Transport protocol	UDP/TCP
Network protocol	IPv4
Priority input queue size	50000
Mac protocol	IEEE 802.11
Energy model	Generic:
	𝑃transmit = 1300 mW
	𝑃receive = 900 mW
	𝑃Idle = 740 mW
	𝑃Sleep = 47 mW
Battery model	Residual life estimator
Physical layer model	PHY 802.11b
Wireless channel frequency	2.4 GHz
Pathloss model	Two ray
Shadowing model	Constant
Shadowing mean	4.0 dB
Transmission range	270 m
Data rate	11 Mbps
Simulation repeat times	20 different seeds