Performance Comparisons of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

TL;DR

This paper compares the performance of different routing protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, analyzing metrics like throughput and delay to determine their effectiveness in dynamic, infrastructure-less wireless environments.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of proactive and reactive routing protocols DSDV, AODV, and DSR using NS-2 simulation, highlighting their relative performance.

Findings

AODV shows higher throughput under certain conditions

DSDV has lower end-to-end delay in static scenarios

DSR performs better in high-mobility environments

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes that dynamically form a network temporarily without any support of central administration. Moreover, Every node in MANET moves arbitrarily making the multi-hop network topology to change randomly at unpredictable times. There are several familiar routing protocols like DSDV, AODV, DSR, etc...which have been proposed for providing communication among all the nodes in the network. This paper presents a performance comparison of proactive and reactive protocols DSDV, AODV and DSR based on metrics such as throughput, packet delivery ratio and average end-to-end delay by using the NS-2 simulator.