International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 56 - Number 15 |
Year of Publication: 2012 |
Authors: Ritika Sharma, Kamlesh Gupta |
10.5120/8969-3194 |
Ritika Sharma, Kamlesh Gupta . Comparison based Performance Analysis of UDP/CBR and TCP/FTP Traffic under AODV Routing Protocol in MANET. International Journal of Computer Applications. 56, 15 ( October 2012), 28-35. DOI=10.5120/8969-3194
The transmission of information in a MANET relies on the performance of the traffic scenario (application traffic agent and data traffic) used in a network. The traffic scenario determines the reliability and capability of information transmission, which necessitates its performance analysis. The objective of this paper is to compare the performance of TCP/FTP and UDP/CBR traffic in AODV routing protocol generally implemented in a mobile ad hoc environment. An empirical study has been done using NS-2. Exhaustive simulations have been done to analyze results, which are evaluated for performance metrics, such as throughput, packet delivery ratio and average end to end delay. The effect of variations in simulation time, number of nodes, and speed of mobile nodes on the network performance is analyzed over a wide range of their values. It is observed that the TCP/FTP offers a far better performance for throughput than UDP/CBR; in case of PDR, former offers an almost constant trend, whereas the latter shows highly varying (rising and falling) trends in all the three aforementioned scenarios. The average end to end delay of latter is lesser than former. The results follow these trends over a wide range of simulation parameters.