Evaluation and Performance of Reactive Protocols Using Mobility Model

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the performance of reactive routing protocols in MANETs, specifically DSR, AODV, and AOMDV, highlighting their mechanisms and effectiveness in dynamic wireless environments.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of reactive protocols DSR, AODV, and AOMDV, focusing on their performance in mobile ad-hoc networks.

Findings

AOMDV maintains more stable routes than DSR and AODV.

Reactive protocols adapt better to node mobility.

AOMDV reduces route discovery frequency.

Abstract

A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a self-motivated wireless network which has no centralized point. It is an independent network that is connected by wireless link so, in which every point or device work as a router. In this network every node forward the packets to the destination as a router and it's not operating as an ending point. In this network every node adjusts them self by on his way in any direction because they are independent and change their position regularly. There are exist three main types of routing protocols which are reactive, proactive and final is hybrid protocols. This whole work compares the performance of some reactive protocols which also known as on - demand protocols, which are DSR, AODV and the final is AOMDV. DSR and AODV are reactive protocols which connected the devices on the network when needed by a doorway. The AOMDV protocol was designed for ad hoc networks whenever any route or link fail and also maintain routes with sequence numbers to avoid looping.