Comparative analysis of AODV and DSR scalability in MANET

Abstract

MANET is an Ad-hoc mobile network which consists of autonomous mobile nodes which are self organizing in an infrastructure less setup. This means that there is no centralized system, hence the mobile nodes have to perform routing and aggregations and forward the information to other mobile nodes. Routing is a major challenge in Mobile ad-hoc networks due to the mobility of nodes. In this paper a simulation analysis of two common routing protocols: Ad-hoc on demand distance vector (AODV) and Dynamic source routing (DSR) is performed varying the node density in a fixed size area with highly mobile nodes moving at random speeds. Simulation is performed using the Network Simulator 2 (NS2).