Comparative Analysis of AOMDV Protocol Performance in Random Obstacle Mobility Environments

In the context of communications networks, a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) represents a set of mobile nodes that are dynamically configured, without physical infrastructure or centralized administration. This article analyzes which of the routing strategies for MANET—proactive, reactive, or hybrid—offers the best results. For the measurement, twenty-four simulations were established in emergency situations in an urban area. This involved, in addition to the defined quality of service (QoS) parameters, calculating node densities and using a mobility model necessary to validate the results. The AODV, DSDV, and AOMDV protocols were used in these simulations, and the AOMDV protocol offered the best QoS with the random obstacle mobility model in the NS2 tool.