Evaluating the Impact of Thermal Noise on AODV, DSDV and DSR Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Because of their good support and easy deployment, wireless ad-hoc networks are currently widely being used for many industrial or military applications. Like other communication networks, environmental conditions can have considerable impact on the performance of wireless ad-hoc networks. Temperature is a good example which results in thermal agitation of the charge carriers. Consequently, we should be able to precisely estimate the performance of these networks in various environmental conditions to see whether they satisfy our expectations or not before any deployment. Investigating the effect of Thermal noise on the routing performance of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks is something never done before. This paper evaluates the impact of Thermal noise on the routing capability of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs); which are a kind of Wireless ad-hoc Networks; in existence of thermal noise. The results can be a useful guidance for outdoor implementation of MANETs for industrial process automation and control applications.