PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MANET ROUTING PROTOCOL

Abstract

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming
a network topology without the use of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration.
MANET is a self configuring network and the topology of the network keeps on changing as the nodes move
randomly and organize themselves in an arbitrarily manner. Mobile nodes communicate with each other
using multi-hop wireless links. Each node in the network also acts as a router, forwarding data packets for
other nodes. In order to facilitate communication within the network, a routing protocol is used to discover
routes between nodes. Due to higher mobility in nodes and dynamic infrastructure of MANETs, Routing is
important issue in ad hoc networks. In this paper three routing protocols AODV(Ad hoc On Demand
Distance Vector), DSDV (Destination Sequenced Distance-Vector), DSR (Dynamic Source Routing) are
compared. By using Network Simulator, we setup and evaluate the performance of the protocols with the
metrics throughput, packet delivery ratio, Average end-to-end delay.

Author

G Shenbagavalli