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Mobility model is the foundation of the simulation study of various protocols in the Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET). The entity mobility model is a family of mobility models widely used in the study. A comparative study on entity mobility models is presented in this paper. Firstly, both the advantages and disadvantages of five typical entity mobility models are summarized; these models include the Random Walk model (RW), the Random WayPoint model (RWP), the Random Direction model (RD) Smooth Random Model and Gauss-Markov Mobility Model. Secondly, focus on primary parameters of these models, effects of node density on the performance metric of MANET routing protocols are analyzed. Finally, with the help of the OPNET simulator, the effect of different entity mobility models on the performance of MANET Proactive protocol is analyzed. This paper measures some performances such as End to End delay, Throughput and Routing Overhead of MANET.