Simulation Based Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols Using Random Waypoint Mobility Model in Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Santosh Kumar, Shilpa Sharma, Bhupendra Suman · Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2011
s A mobile ad hoc network is collection of self-configuring and adaption of wireless link between communicating devices (mobile devices) to form an arbitrary topology without the use of existing infrastructure. In wireless network technology, simulative analysis is a significant method to understand the performance of routing protocol. In this paper an attempt has been made to compare the performance of two prominent on-demand reactive routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks: DSR and AODV, along with the traditional proactive DSDV protocol. The On-demand protocols, AODV and DSR perform better under high mobility simulations than the table-driven DSDV protocol.Although DSDV perform well with respect to all included performance matrices in the paper if it has no constraints of bandwidth. The performance differentials are analyzed using varying network load, mobility, and network size.