Comparison of Performance Metrics of Reactive Routing Protocol Using FTP

Now-a-days wireless ad-hoc networks are growing tremendously as its self configuring and self maintaining characteristics and it does not require any well built infra-structure. Since topology of this network is unpredictable as nodes are free to join or leave the any network within its vicinity and there is no clear line of defense. The most challenging task in mobile ad-hoc networks is to provide energy efficient routing protocols as the mobile nodes have limited power and limited bandwidth. In this paper, we evaluated and compared the QoS parameters in terms of route discovery time hopes per route, throughput, network load and delay of different routing protocols using file transfer protocol (FTP) application in order to choose the best routing protocol. FTP application is used to transfer files from source to destination. AODV routing protocol performs slightly better than the DSR routing protocol in terms of throughput and delay.