Performance Analysis of Topology and Destination Based Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Using NS2

In this paper, three MANET routing protocols were simulated. One is the DSDV which is a destination-based proactive protocol. Others are DSR and AODV which are topology-based reactive protocols. Also, three metrics namely, Throughput, Packet delivery ratio (PDR) and Jitter were considered for the performance evaluation. The protocols were simulated using network simulator 2. The results showed that the average Throughput, the PDR and average Jitter of the protocols increased as the number of network topology (nodes) increased. Overall, AODV protocol outperformed the other two protocols for all the observed metrics when the network exceeds 35 nodes while the DSR is the better protocol in smaller networks. Thus, the two reactive protocols (DSR Topology-based and AODV Destination-based) have shown better performance over the DSDV Destination-based proactive protocol. Furthermore, the trend analysis based on the cumulative performance in different network scenarios is useful information for the network designers.