Performance Analysis of Transactional Traffic in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANETs) present unique challenge to new protocol design, especially in scenarios where nodes are highly mobile. Routing protocols performance is essential to the performance of wireless networks especially in mobile ad-hoc scenarios. The development of new routing protocols requires com- paring them against well-known protocols in various simulation environments. The protocols should be analysed under realistic conditions including, but not limited to, representative data transmission models, limited buffer space for data transmission, sensible simulation area and transmission range combination, and realistic moving patterns of the mobiles nodes. Furthermore, application traffic like transactional application traffic has not been investigated for domain-specific MANETs scenarios. Overall, there are not enough performance comparison work in the past literatures. This thesis presents extensive performance comparison among MANETs comparing transactional traffic including both highly-dynamic environment as well as low-mobility cases

A Framework for Generating HTTP Adaptive Streaming Traffic in ns-3

Accepted short paperInternational audienceVideo streaming is today one of the most relevant service in mobile Internet, which represents around 50% of total mobile data traffic. Consequently, researchers perform huge efforts to design and propose new mechanisms and archi-tectures to improve video streaming in mobile networks. In this regard, simulation is a relevant step to test and validate those new mechanisms and models. ns-3 is one models of the most widely used network simulator due to its rich library of network and its vast user community. Despite of its relevance, ns-3 lacks of realistic traffic source. This paper presents a HTTP Adaptive Streaming traffic generator framework for mobile networks in ns-3. Its design and validation are presented, as well as some possible evolution directions and future works