Comparative Study of Ad-hoc Routing Protocol for Oil and Gas Pipelines Surveillance Systems

Abstract

Development and growth in all spheres of life has led to increased demand for modern technology such as video surveillance system. In this paper an oil pipeline surveillance system based on Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) as one of the means used to limit these risks is designed, implemented and evaluated. The MANET is infrastructure less (self-organized) wireless network, where each node can work as host (camera) and router at the same time. The topology design of oil pipeline imposes several constraints on the amount of video can be transmitted through the network depending on the size and the rate of the packets generated by each camera. Two types of routing protocols are examined for the proposed surveillance MANET, reactive (AODV) and proactive (OLSR). The results of comparison under different network loads and packets rate show that the AODV gives better performance over OLSR in terms of throughput, Packet lost, PTR and overhead. Therefore AODV protocol can be considered as strong candidate to be used in MANET wireless networks for oil and gas surveillance system.