Comparative Analysis of DSR, FSR and ZRP Routing Protocols in MANET
Sailesh Kumar Sathish, K. Thangavel, S. Boopathi · 2011
Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that are arbitrarily located so that the interconnections between nodes are dynamically changing. A routing protocol is used to find routes between mobile nodes to facilitate communication within the network. The main goal of such an ad hoc network routing protocol is to establish correct and efficient route between a pair of mobile nodes. Route should be discovered and maintained with a minimum of overhead and bandwidth consumption. There are number of routing protocols were proposed for adhoc networks. It is quiet difficult to compare all of the protocols. This paper presents performance evaluation of three different routing protocols i.e. Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR), Fisheye State Routing (FSR) and Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) with respect to variable pause times. Performance of DSR, FSR and ZRP is evaluated based on Average end-to-end delay, Packet delivery ratio, Throughput and Average Jitter. Based on the simulation results DSR perform well compare with other protocol except the jitter. Simulations of protocols to analyze their performance in different conditions were performed in NS 2 simulator.