Simulation based Performance and Comparative Study of Different Reactive and Proactive Routing Protocols in MANET
Ekta Barkhodia, Parulpreet Singh, Gurleen Kaur Walia · 2012
Routing protocols for a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) have been of great interest for many years, several studies have been done on the performance evaluation of routing protocols using different evaluation methods. This research makes an attempt to eventually help better understand the protocols’. In this paper, behavioral study of different MANET routing protocols viz. Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Ad-Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), have been carried out so as to identify which protocol is most suitable for efficient routing over Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET). The performance of these routing protocols is evaluated with respect to throughput and end-to-end delay. As the simulation results demonstrate, OLSR protocol has been a very effective and efficient routing protocol for MANET, which ensures its particular suitability, irrespective of network size and mobility.