Performance comparison of pro-active and reactive routing protocols for MANET

Abstract

Efficient routing protocols can provide significant benefits to MANETs for both performance & reliability. Many routing protocols [1] for such networks have been reported. Amongst the most popular ones are Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Ad-Hoc on demand distance vector (AODV) & Temporary ordered routing algorithm (TORA). In this paper we compare MANET Protocols DSDV & AODV individually using Network Simulator NS2. The performance matrix includes Delay and Throughput. We are comparing the performance of routing protocols on changing the parameters packet size, time interval between packet sending. © 2012 IEEE.