Simulation Based Performance Comparison of AODV and DSR Routing Protocols in MANETS
Sahil Gupta, Sunanda Arora, Gaurav Banga · 2012
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETS) are formed by a collection of mobile nodes that have the ability to form a communication network without the help of any fixed infrastructure. Because of the nature of these networks, routing protocols play a prominent role in their scalability and overall performance. Due to limited radio transmission range, multiple hops may be required in order to exchange data among the communicating nodes. So, a key requirement of any efficient routing protocol is to find a route between two communicating nodes quickly and with low bandwidth overheads. This study inspects two MANET protocols (i.e. Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector routing (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR)) and examines their performance based on variation of node density and mobility. The performance is determined on the basis of throughput and average end-to-end delay with varying node density and mobility. AODV with higher node density shows an extreme degradation in performance.