A simulation study on the stability-oriented routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks

Abstract

We present an extensive ns-2 (K. Fall and K. Varadhan) simulation-based performance comparison of three widely known stability-oriented mobile ad hoc network routing protocols: associativity-based routing (ABR) protocol (C-K Toh, 1997), flow-oriented routing protocol (FORP) (W. Su et al., 2001) and route assessment based routing (RABR) protocol (S. Agarwal et al., 2000). The order of the ranking of the protocols in terms of the packet delivery ratio and the number of route transitions is as follows: FORP, RABR, and ABR. The order of ranking in terms of the average hop count per route and end-to-end delay per packet is: ABR, RABR, and FORP. Thus, we see a stability-delay tradeoff within the class of stability-oriented routing protocols