Collision Avoidance in Mobile Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks with Enhanced MACAW Protocol Suite

Şadan Cambazoglu¹, Arif Sari²

¹Department of Management Information Systems, European University of Lefke, Lefke, Cyprus.
²Department of Management Information Systems, Girne American University, Kyrenia, Cyprus.

DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2015.813048                

Abstract

Jamming attack is quite serious threat for Mobile networks that collapses all necessary communication infrastructure. Since mobile nodes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) communicate in a multi-hop mode, there is always a possibility for an intruder to launch a jamming attack in order to intercept communication among communication nodes. In this study, a network simulation has been carried out in order to explore and evaluate the possible impacts of jamming attack on MACAW protocol. Ad-hoc network modelling is used to provide communication infrastructure among mobile nodes in order to modelling the simulation scenarios. In simulation model, these nodes have used AODV routing protocol which is designed for MANET while second scenario contains simulated MACAW node models for comparison. On the other hand, this paper is the first study that addresses performance evaluation of MACAW protocol under a constant Jamming Attack. The performance of MACAW protocol is simulated through OPNET Modeler 14.5 software.

Keywords

OPNET, Simulation, MACAW, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Collision, Jamming, AODV

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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