Please select ONE of the following two projects as your mini-project for the course. You are required to do the simulations as per the suggested project, analyse your results and write a term paper based on your simulation and analysis. The term paper MUST NOT exceed 6 pages and MUST be in IEEE transactions format. Using Latex is mandatory for M.Tech. students (or those teams containing M.Tech. students). Others may use the Word template available from IEEE site. Here are some HINTS for doing the mini-project.

1. Comparison of Average Power Dissipation of nodes using Expanding Ring Search and Broadcast in AODV during Route Discovery

AIM: To understand the effect of expanding ring search on the power dissipation of nodes in a MANET.

Create a MANET with an area of 2000 X 2000m. Have the nodes in the MANET at random locations in this area. The number of nodes in the MANET must be 25, 50 and 75 nodes. For each density, use broadcast and expanding ring search for route discovery in AODV. The nodes in the MANET move with a mobility of 0-10m/s, mobility being randomly chosen. Have 10 connections between random source-destination pairs. In each case (a combination of density and broadcast or ERR), calculate the average power dissipation of nodes and routing overhead. Analyse the power dissipation with respect to the routing overhead observed.

Teams: Sabitha and Zahed, Rohit Jamuar and Raju Naik, Chetan and Neelakantam, Uuganbat

2. Comparison of Throughput and Power dissipation of mobile nodes using various TCP flavours with Mobile IP

AIM: To understand how various TCP flavours perform with Mobile IP and how the congestion window changes during handoff

In this project, have 5 domains and atleast one mobile node per domain. Have atleast 2 fixed nodes in each domain. Have 8 connections between these nodes such that there are atleast 2 connections between mobile nodes, 2 between wired nodes and 4 between wired and mobile nodes. For each connection, calculate the throughput for various TCP flavours - TCP Tahoe, Reno, SACK and Delayed Ack. Calculate the power dissipation of atleast one mobile node for these various flavours of TCP. Observe the congestion window of atleast one wired-mobile connection for various TCP flavours at both the nodes and correlate it to the handoff. Analyse the throughput performance of various TCP flavours in Mobile IP.

Teams: Abhishek and Giri