Performance Analysis of Video Streaming Application over MANETs Routing Protocols

The advent of wireless technology is one of the biggest breakthroughs of the modern era, this technology enables the users to utilize the freedom of movement and the use of the equipment while on the move. Mobile Ad-hoc Network is a special point of focus for industry and academic researchers from all around the globe. This technology has come with its own flavour as it is easy to deploy in disaster areas and for emergency operations. MANET creates a temporary environment of mobile nodes without the need of any centralized networks. The nodes collaborate with each other to send and forward packets to destination nodes. Mobile Ad hoc Network do not rely on wired network routing protocols. It uses its own Ad hoc routing protocols that are entirely different from the tradition wired network as routing path breaks due to self-organized nodes while discovering multi hop routes through network. Video streaming applications are of various types like video Conferencing, video chat, video on demand and live video streaming. These different applications have different resource requirements which shall be met by MANET according to the availability of resources, In this paper, a comprehensive simulation based on a comparative study over MANET is performed on video streaming applications under two types of routing protocols covering reactive, and proactive routing protocols namely Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), both these protocols have been considered for investigation by using OPNET simulation, throughput, delay, Load and Data retransmission metrics have been used for measuring these protocols.