Performance Analysis in Reactive Routing Protocols in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using DSR, AODV and AOMDV

Abstract

Selecting an appropriate routing protocol for steering data packets is a very important issue to evaluate the performance of wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). This selection can be difficult in different situations since in such networks there is no specific infrastructure and standard specifications for network development. In this paper we introduce several reactive routing protocols in the MANET and check some performance metrics such as throughput, end to end delay and packet delivery ratio in order to find the best routing protocol based on the enforced conditions in our network. It is observed that in a network with increased number of nodes to maximum 20 nodes, packet delivery ratio and throughput in DSR and AOMDV routing protocols are better than AODV while in checking end to end delay, AOMDV shows less delay than DSR and AODV.