Performance Assessment of DSDV and AODV Routing Protocols in Mobile Adhoc Networks with Focus on Node Density and Routing Overhead

Mobile adhoc networks have become increasingly very popular because of its infrastructure-less, decentralized and distributed functionality in the field of telecommunication networks. Indeed, the mobile nodes configure the networks that have shown their effectiveness and challenges for monitoring and control with better accuracy. This paper provides a comparative analysis of two routing protocols in MANETs environments: Proactive (DSDV) and reactive (AODV) routing protocols using the NS-2 simulation tool. The comparison of both routing protocols has been carried out by the result analysis that is based on various parameters: Routing overhead, node density, number of hop count and number of packets received. It is evident from the simulation results that DSDV gives better performance than AODV in terms of routing overhead and number of packet received. However the AODV perform better than DSDV in terms of node density and number of hops count.