Behavioral analysis of reactive MANET routing protocol for streaming multimedia applications

The dynamic topological change in mobile ad hoc networks hinders the possibility of predicting the behavior under different communication and data transfer requirements. In this paper, a detailed analysis and interpretation was made by simulating the network with DSR protocol, specifically for streaming multimedia applications, under different scenarios set by varying the pause time, workload and data rate. The effect of these variables is evaluated in terms of average throughput, average end-to-end delay and average jitter. It is evident from the analysis that the performance of the DSR protocol is superior under medium mobility compared to high and low mobility scenarios. The influence of workload and data rate on the performance metrics under low, medium and high mobility scenarios were also discussed.