Performance evaluation of DSR, OLSR and ZRP protocols in MANETs

This paper presents a detailed simulation study of Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) and Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) in different mobile scenarios generated by Random Waypoint model for Mobile Ad hoc networks. The impact of these routing protocols is evaluated with respect to Average End-to-End Delay, Average Jitter, Average Throughput, Normalized Routing Load (NRL) and Packet Delivery Fraction (PDF). The major goal of this study is to analyze the performance of popular MANETs routing protocol in high mobility scenarios.