Simulación de un mecanismo de control de potencia en aodv en función del número de vecinos usando cross layering en una MANET

Abstract

The present study focused on MANET´s (Mobile Ad-hoc Network), in order to design a power control mechanism in the AODV routing protocol by means of a Cross Layering technique. With this method we aim to increase the number of successful transmissions, reduce collisions, use only the necessary energy, as well as to maintain or improve the performance of AODV and therfore the network performance. This Project is developed in the NS-3 network simulator. The methodology has several stages. The first one refers to the operation of the NS-3 simulator, the second one provides details about the hard work done to achieve power control implementation: access to physical layer, pointers, generation of functions, modification of the routing protocol, parameters and dependencies of the power control mechanism, the third one shows the scenarios for the simulations, mobility models and generation of traces, the last one includes the generation of logs, which contain the results of the simulations. With the results we validate the action of the power control mechanism. It also includes a comparative analysis to assess the performance and overhead differences when the power control mechanism is activated or not. Finally it presents conclusions and annexes.