  Self-Organized networks (SONs) have been studied for many years, and have
attracted many researchers due to their substantial applications. Although the
performance of such networks in the lower band networks (sub-6 GHz band
frequencies) has been well studied, there are only sparse studies on SON in
higher frequency bands, such as the millimeter wave (mmWave) band ranges
between 28GHz and 300GHz. mmWave frequencies have attracted many researchers in
the past few years because of its unique features and are now considered as an
important part of the next generation of wireless communications namely (5G).In
this paper, we study the performance of some well-known routing protocols in
the case of mmWave Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) using the ns-3 mmwave module
that was developed recently. SONs are within the goals for the next release of
the 3GPP New Radio (NR) standardization process (Release-16) for the 5G, which
makes the study of the behavior of such frequency bands for these networks an
important activity towards achieving such goal. Mathematical and simulation
results show a great improvement in the routing protocols delivery rates and
power consumption when using mmWave compared to the sub6GHz band frequencies.
