Efficient Data Communication in a Structural Grid base for Mobile Ad-hoc Network Scenarios

An ad hoc wireless network consists of a set of mobile hosts operating without the aid of an established infrastructure of centralized administration. All nodes are capable of movement and can be connected dynamically in an arbitrary manner. The responsibilities for organizing and controlling the network are distributed among the terminals themselves. The nodes of these networks function as routers, which discover and maintain routes to other nodes in the networks. Energy consumption is also one of the most important performance metrics for wireless ad hoc networks, it directly relates to the operational lifetime of the networks. The approach in those works was to minimize the total consumed energy to reach the destination, which minimizes the energy consumed per unit flow or packet. If all the traffic is routed though through the minimum energy path to the destination the nodes in that path will be drain-out of batteries quickly while other nodes, which perhaps will be more power hungry if traffic is forwarded through them, will remain intact. In this work, we formulate an adhoc network scenario through Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector routing protocol in order to analyse the data communication efficiency through different network parameters, such as round trip time (RTT), data packet transmission, data packet reception, and loss. Our analysis states that, with the increasing of number of nodes in a structural grid, the average round trip time increases with the increased packet loss rate.