Investigation of Mobile Nodes Arrival Patters in MANETs Using Pareto Models

Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes configured to communicate amongst each other without the aid of an existing infrastructure. MANETs do appear in many real-world network applications such as a vehicular MANETs built along a highway in a city environment or people in a particular location. MNs in MANETs are usually laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or mobile phones. Mobility is a key feature of MANETs. Each node may work as a router and the network can dynamically change with time; when new nodes can join, and other nodes can leave the network. This paper presents comparative results that have been carried out via Matlab software simulation. The study investigates the impact of mobility prediction models on mobile nodes' parameters such as the arrival rate and the size of mobile nodes in a given area using Pareto distribution. The results have indicated that mobile nodes' arrival rates may have influence on MNs population (as a larger number) in a location.