Performance Evaluation of AODV, DSDV & DSR for Quasi Random Deployment of Sensor Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor deployment is one of the key topics addressed in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). This paper proposes a new deployment technique of sensor nodes for WSN called as Quasi Random Deployment (QRD). The novel approach to deploy sensor nodes in QRD fashion is to improve the energy efficiency of the WSN in order to increase the network life time and coverage. The QRD produces highly uniform coordinates and it systematically fills the specified area. Along with Random Deployment (RD) pattern of wireless sensor node QRD is analysed in this study. The network is simulated using NS-2 simulator. The efficiency of this deployment is evaluated assuming three routing protocols used for the adhoc networks. They are AODV, DSDV, and DSR. The protocol assumed at transport layer is UDP. Application layer generates the CBR traffic. The performance of these three routing techniques is compared based on total energy consumption, coverage area. The simulation results show that the conventional routing protocols like DSR have a best performance for both RD and QRD of the sensor nodes when there is no mobility of the sensor nodes as compared to AODV and DSDV. Among AODV and DSDV, AODV performs better as compared to DSDV.