Performance study of ad-hoc routing protocols for IEEE802.11 and IEEE802.11e standards

Network without fixed infrastructure is called ad hoc network. All the nodes communicate directly with each other with dynamically changing topology. This poses a challenge for developing efficient routing protocols. In this paper we presents a comprehensive study on the performance of ad hoc network routing protocols with two Mac layer models. The routing protocols used in this study are AODV and ZRP which comprise a good mix of proactive and hybrid routing protocols. The Mac layer models used here are 802.11 and 802.11e. Their performance is analyzed on throughput, jitter, end-to end delay and total packets received measuring metrics by varying the number of nodes in the network using QualNet 5.0.2 network simulator.