Analysis of routing protocols for Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile Ad Hoc Network is a collection of wireless nodes communicating with each other without any wired infrastructure. This is very popular domain of research due to their ad hoc nature. Multiple network hops are required to deliver and exchange data across a network. Each Mobile node is also acting as a router which will forward the packets to their nearest hop and thus finally the packet reaches to the destination. Routing protocols designed for fixed network are not capable to withstand ad hoc nature such as such as mobility and less bandwidth. In this paper, various routing protocols available on ad hoc network are simulated and various performance parameters such as packet delivery ratio, delay and throughput are studied under different load conditions and using different mobility patterns.