Impact of node density on the performance of GSR & TORA routing protocols

In mobile ad hoc network due to the limited transmission range of wireless nodes, multiple hops are needed to exchange information between nodes in the network. Thus routing is a crucial issue to design of a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network. So, there is need of efficient routing protocols to establish communication paths between nodes, without causing extreme control traffic overhead or power constrained devices. In this paper, estimation of the performance of GSR and TORA routing protocols is done by performing simulations using NS-2 simulator. Throughput, packet delivery ratio, average jitter, end-to-end delay and packet loss are used as a performance metrics to evaluate the performance of both protocols. Finally, the impact of node density on the performance of GSR and TORA routing protocols is determined.