Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes that creates a dynamically wireless network among them without using any fixed infrastructure. Nodes are mobile and free to move, independent of each other which makes routing much difficult. The routing protocols in MANET should be more dynamic so that they quickly respond to topological changes. In this paper simulation based experiments are performed to analyze the performance of Hybrid Routing Protocols ZRP, CBRP on the basis of Packet Delivery Ratio, End to End delay and Average Throughput. These results are compared with AODV, DSR and FSR routing protocols by varying number of nodes. The comparison shows that Hybrid routing Protocol for adhoc networks performs better as compared to AODV and DSR routing protocols.