Comparison of On-Demand Routing Protocols

Routing in MANET is very important issue as dynamic topology of MANET makes routing very difficult. In this paper we are comparing two on-demand routing protocol namely Ad hoc on demand distance vector (AODV) and Dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol. Performance is compared on the parameters like Packet delivery fraction i.e. throughput, Average end to end delay and Normalized routing overhead using network simulator-2. The performance analysis is done by varying mobility pattern (pause time and speed) and traffic pattern (sending rate). The simulation result will help to select the best one for MANET. Our work shows that DSR slightly outperformed AODV.